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1. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping. As we do these things on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers. this is why we need to update our computer training on a consistent basis. While some may be looking to phish your personal information and identity for resale, others simply just want to use your computer as a platform from which to attack other unknowing targets.

Spyware & Adware

One major point that needs to be discussed about this: spam is now coming from other countries in ever-greater numbers. These emails are harder to fight, because they come from outside our country’s laws and regulations. Because the Internet opens borders and thinks globally, these laws are fine and good, but do not stop the problem.

Where Does It Come From?

Typically, spyware originates in three ways. The first and most common way is when the user installs it. In this scenario, spyware is embedded, attached, or bundled with a freeware or shareware program without the user’s knowledge. The user downloads the program to their computer. Once downloaded, the spyware program goes to work collecting data for the spyware author’s personal use or to sell to a third-party. Beware of many P2P file-sharing programs. Search on Google, they are notorious for downloads that posses spyware programs.

The user of a downloadable program should pay extra attention to the accompanying licensing agreement. Often the software publisher will warn the user that a spyware program will be installed along with the requested program. Unfortunately, we do not always take the time to read the fine print. Some agreements may provide special “opt-out” boxes that the user can click to stop the spyware from being included in the download.

Be sure to review the document before signing off on the download. Another way that spyware can access your computer is by tricking you into manipulating the security features designed to prevent any unwanted installations. The Internet Explorer Web browser was designed not to allow websites to start any unwanted downloads. That is why the user has to initiate a download by clicking on a link. These links can prove deceptive. Computer Training is a must for these problems.

For example: a pop-up modeled after a standard Windows dialog box, may appear on your screen. The message may ask you if you would like to optimize your Internet access. It provides yes or no answer buttons, but, no matter which button you push, a download containing the spyware program will commence. Google will display newer versions of Internet Explorer are now making this spyware pathway a little more difficult.

Finally, some spyware applications infect a system by attacking security holes in the Web browser or other software. When the user navigates a webpage controlled by a spyware author, the page contains code designed to attack the browser, and force the installation of the spyware program. There is a reason why I and so many others use Veretekk's VereMail exclusively. It sends out only double opted verification to protect me from "spamming" complaints, because it is verified therefor it is NOT spam.

There is a reason why I and so many others use Veretekk's VereMail exclusively. It sends out only double opted verification to protect me from "spamming" complaints, because it is verified therefor it is NOT spam.

These are just some of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

2. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping. As we do these things on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers. this is why we need to update our computer training on a consistent basis. While some may be looking to phish your personal information and identity for resale, others simply just want to use your computer as a platform from which to attack other unknowing targets.

Spyware & Adware

So what do you do about this?

Spyware and Adware are not only an ever-increasing nuisance for computer users everywhere, but also a booming industry.

According to Webroot Software, Inc., the distribution of online advertisements through spyware and adware has become a whopping $2 billion industry.
The aggressive advertising and spying tactics demonstrated by some of these programs, require an equally aggressive response from a seasoned eradicator. Sunbelt Software is such a company. A leader in Anti-Spyware, Anti-Spam, Network Security and System Management tools, they gave consistently remained on the cutting-edge of anti-spyware programming since 1994.

So you might be asking:

“Why do I feel as if somebody’s watching me?”

According to the National Cyber Security Alliance, spyware infects more than 90% of all PCs today. These unobtrusive, malicious programs are designed to silently bypass firewalls and anti-virus software without the user’s knowledge. Once embedded in a computer, it can wreak havoc on the system’s performance while gathering your personal information. Fortunately, unlike viruses and worms, spyware programs do not usually self-replicate.

Where Does It Come From?

Once downloaded, the spyware program goes to work collecting data for the spyware author’s personal use or to sell to a third-party. Beware of many P2P file-sharing programs. They are notorious for downloads that posses spyware programs.

These are just some of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

3. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping. As we do these things on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers. this is why we need to update our computer training on a consistent basis. While some may be looking to phish your personal information and identity for resale, others simply just want to use your computer as a platform from which to attack other unknowing targets.

Fighting Spam

So what do you do about this?

Here are the top 5 rules to do to protect from spam:

Number 4: Attachments from people you don’t know are BAD, BAD, BAD. A common problem with spam is that they have attachments and attachments can have viruses. Corporations often have filters that don’t let such things pass to you. Personal eMail is far more “open country” for spammers. General rule of thumb: if you do not know who is sending you something, DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT. Secondly, look for services that offer filtering. Firewall vendors offer this type of service as well.

Number 5: EMail services now have “bulk-mail” baskets. If what you use currently does not support this, think about moving to a new vender. The concept is simple. If you know someone, they can send you emails. If you don’t know them, put them in the bulk eMail pile and then “choose” to allow them into your circle. Spam Blocking software has this concept as well, but having extra layers seems critical these days, so it is worth looking into.

These are just some of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

4. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

As we do these things on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers. this is why we need to update our computer training on a consistent basis. While some may be looking to phish your personal information and identity for resale, others simply just want to use your computer as a platform from which to attack other unknowing targets.

Fighting Spam

So what do you do about this?

Here are the top 5 rules to do to protect from spam:

Number 2: Get a spam blocking software. There are many programs out there for this. (Go to www.cloudmark.com or www.mailwasher.net for example). You may also buy a professional version. Whatever you do, get the software. It will save you time. The software is not foolproof, but they really do help. You usually have to do some manual set up to block certain types of eMail.

Number 3: Use the multiple eMail address approach. There are a lot of free eMail addresses to be had. If you must subscribe to newsletters, then have a “back-up” eMail address. It would be like giving your cell phone number to your best friends and the business number to everyone else.

Here Are "404 Error" Secrets you Should Know

Have you ever wanted to visit a particular website, but typed the address or URL incorrectly? You’ll notice that, on most occasions, you saw this:

The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try the following: • If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly. • Open the marketmamakeoveraenerator.com home page, and then look for links to the information you want. • Click the Back button to try another link.
HTTP 404 - File not found Internet Information Services Technical Information (for support personnel) • More information: Microsoft Support

Or You Saw This:
Not Found Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while Trying to...

Well, these are what are more commonly referred to as 404 Error Pages. It’s simply an automatically generated page that is shown when someone ‘accidentally’ types in the wrong extension of any particular website they are at or are trying to visit.

I’m sure you’ve heard the talks and read the reports about how valuable your web real estate can be to you and your business. Most of the time, when this topic is being discussed, they are usually talking about your thank you pages, your download pages, or any page that your visitors or membership site members will be visiting the most. If you remember, these talks and reports said that you should put links, banners, text, images,Google Adsense, or just about anything on these page that can potentially make you more money.

The one page they usually forget to mention is your 404 Error page. Now, there are a couple of reasons why people will end up on this page of yours. • They truly do type in the section of your website that they are intending to view incorrectly and accidentally reach your error page.

• You sell downloadable information or give it away, and they are trying to bypass either having to pay or having to give you their name and eMail address (opt-in) to get access to this valuable information. The first reason is just human error and can be viewed as an honest mistake. It’s happened to me a ton of times and it has probably happened to you as well.

These are just some of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

5. ComputerTraining

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Fighting Spam

So what do you do about this?

Here are the top 5 rules to do to protect from spam:

Number 1: Do what you can to avoid having your eMail address out on the net. There are products called “spam spiders” that search the Internet for eMail addresses to send eMail to. If you are interested, do a search on “spam spider” and you will be amazed at what you get back.

This is why I use Veretekk's VereMail exclusively. It sends out only double opted verification to protect me from "spamming" complaints, because it is verified therefor it is NOT spam.

Here Are "404 Error" Secrets you Should Know

Have you ever wanted to visit a particular website, but typed the address or URL incorrectly? You’ll notice that, on most occasions, you saw this:

Or You Saw This:

Not Found Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while Trying to...

Well, this is what is more commonly referred to as a 404 Error Page. It’s simply an automatically generated page that is shown when someone ‘accidentally’ types in the wrong extension of any particular website they are at or are trying to visit.

Now as you can see, the above 2 examples are the default versions of 404 error messages and are extremely generic. If you have your own website that does get traffic and this is what people see when they type in an extension after your domain name incorrectly, then you are losing money.

These are just some of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

6. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Fighting Spam

So what do you do about this?

Here are the top 5 rules to do to protect from spam:

Number 1: Do what you can to avoid having your eMail address out on the net. There are products called “spam spiders” that search the Internet for eMail addresses to send eMail to. If you are interested, do a search on “spam spider” and you will be amazed at what you get back.

Sending E-zines from Yahoo! or Gmail

Part of the temptation for newbies is to collect or self publish a group of e-mails and start mailing out from their own personal e-mails. At first this may seem quite harmless when you have about 10-20 people in your list, but once your subscriber count exceeds 50 people, you are going to have a very big problem on your hand.

Firstly, you will have to handle people who newly sign up on your list manually. People who wish to unsubscribe needs to be manually removed as well – causing you massive administration problems.

The worst thing is most Internet service providers refuse to let you send bulk emails to many people at once. I use the Veretekk eMail system of verification to send out eMails. So that no spam will prey on the unsuspecting through my network.

These are just some of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

7. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Fighting Spam

So what do you do about this?

Here are the top 5 rules to do to protect from spam:

Number 1: Do what you can to avoid having your email address out on the net. There are products called “spam spiders” that search the Internet for email addresses to send email to. If you are interested, do a search on “spam spider” and you will be amazed at what you get back.

Interestingly, WebPoison.org is an open source project geared to fight Internet "spambots" and "spam spiders", by giving them bogus HTML web pages, which contain bogus email addresses.

A couple suggestions for you:

A) Use form emails, which can hide addresses or also.

B) Use addresses like sales@company.com instead of your full address to help battle the problem.

C) There are also programs that encode your email, like jsGuard, which encodes your email address on web pages so that spam spiders find it difficult or impossible to read your email address.

These are just some of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

8. ComputerTraining

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Fighting Spam

Spam, as you can see is illegal. Keeping up to date with Computer Training will help keep you informed of any new laws being passed by congress.

In addition, it prohibits the use of misleading subject lines and requires that emails include and opt-out mechanism. The legislation also prohibits senders from harvesting addresses off Web sites. Violations constitute a misdemeanor crime subject to up to one year in jail.

These are just some of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

9. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Protecting Your Computer’s System

9. Turn off your computer and disconnect from the network when not using the computer. A hacker cannot attack your computer when you are disconnected from the network or the computer is off.

Fighting Spam

How prevalent is Spam? According to Scott McAdams, OMA Public Affairs and Communications Department (www.oma.org): “Studies show unsolicited or “junk” e-mail, known as spam, accounts for roughly half of all e-mail messages received. Although once regarded as little more than a nuisance, the prevalence of spam has increased to the point where many users have begun to express a general lack of confidence in the effectiveness of e-mail transmissions, and increased concern over the spread of computer viruses via unsolicited messages.”

In 2003, President Bush signed the “Can Spam” bill, in December of 2003 which is the first national standards around bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail. The bill, approved by the Senate by a vote of 97 to 0, prohibits senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail from using false return addresses to disguise their identity (spoofing) and the use of dictionaries to generate such mailers.

Spam, as you can see is illegal. Keeping up to date with Computer Training will help keep you informed of any new laws being passed by congress.

These are just 10 of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

10. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Below are a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your computer more secure to begin with:

7. Do not run programs from unknown origins. Also, do not send these types of programs to friends and coworkers because they contain funny or amusing stories or jokes. They may contain a Trojans horse waiting to infect a computer.

8. Disable hidden filename extensions. By default, the Windows operating system is set to “hide file extensions for known file types”. Disable this option so that file extensions display in Windows. Some file extensions will, by default, continue to remain hidden, but you are more likely to see any unusual file extensions that do not belong.

9. Turn off your computer and disconnect from the network when not using the computer. A hacker cannot attack your computer when you are disconnected from the network or the computer is off.

10. Consider making a boot disk on a floppy disk in case your computer is damaged or compromised by a malicious program. Obviously, you need to take this step before you experience a hostile breach of your system. These are just 10 of the MANY reason you need to keep current with your Computer Training.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

11. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Below are a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your computer more secure to begin with:

5. Install anti-virus software and set for automatic updates so that you receive the most current versions.

6. Do not open unknown eMail attachments. It is simply not enough that you may recognize the address from which it originates because many viruses can spread from a familiar address.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

12. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Below are a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your computer more secure to begin with:

4. Review your browser and eMail settings for optimum security. Why should you do this? Active-X and JavaScript are often used by hackers to plant malicious programs into your computers. While cookies are relatively harmless in terms of security concerns, they do still track your movements on the Internet to build a profile of you. At a minimum set your security setting for the “Internet zone” to High, and your “trusted sites zone” to Medium Low.

5. Install anti-virus software and set for automatic updates so that you receive the most current versions.

6. Do not open unknown eMail attachments. It is simply not enough that you may recognize the address from which it originates because many viruses can spread from a familiar address.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

13. Computer Training

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Below are a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your computer more secure to begin with:

3. Install a firewall. Without a good firewall, viruses, worms, Trojans, malware and adware can all easily access your computer from the Internet. Consideration should be given to the benefits and differences between hardware and software based firewall programs. Keeping updated with your Computer Training will keep you informed.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

14. ComputerTraining

Computer Training

Protecting Your Computer’s System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping.

Below are a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your computer more secure to begin with:

1. Always make backups of important information and store in a safe place separate from your computer. Personally, I recommend Carbonite.com. It is only $50 a year and everything is totally automatic.

2. Update and patch your operating system, web browser and software frequently. If you have a Windows operating system, start by going to http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx and enter “update wizard” in the search box. This program will help you find the latest patches for your Windows computer.

Also go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx and locate possible patches for your Office programs.

3. Install a firewall. Without a good firewall, viruses, worms, Trojans, malware and adware can all easily access your computer from the Internet. Consideration should be given to the benefits and differences between hardware and software based firewall programs.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

15. Start My Own Business

Start My Own Business

Multi-Level Marketing

For those who are thinking of Multi-Level Marketing as a possible Home Based Business might be "petrified" of the word "computer," let us just say that it should take an ordinary high school graduate no more than one week to learn to prepare this report on an IBM compatible computer with WordPerfect or Microsoft Word and promote yourself on Google.

The Bare-Bones Basics Of Multi-Level Marketing

The ultimate test of an MLM company is the quality, price and reusability of the product. A good firm is usually founded on products with rapidly expanding popularity, day-to-day use in the home, and a regular repurchase required. They should be better quality and at least as competitively priced as the same goods bought in stores.

Here are the bare bones mechanics of MLM

5. Commission and bonuses vary with product and company, but most go through four to eight levels, and have two or three levels at which substantial higher commissions are paid. This encourages new distributors to build those levels.

6. Some of the networks-inside-of-the-networks will end at certain levels with people buying but not sponsoring new people. And some will involve more than five people. Distributors will always be your best customers and biggest moneymakers.

7. The best companies are the blue chip firms offering a wide range of products such as Amway and Shaklee. New ones emerge all the time and some of the faddier MLM companies die quickly. but they can still make good money quickly for distributors with established "downlines".

Turn Your PC Into A Profit Center

The Lazy Person Secrets To Overnight Wealth And Fame

Basically, you set up an appointment to see and talk with business owners about some ideas and help that could double or triple their profits. When you approach them in that manner, their almost certain to want to see you and hear want you have to say.

In prepartion for your meeting, set your ideas down on paper. Put them together in an impressive marketing or profit potential folio. Outline your ideas, the costs involvrd and the ultimate profit to be gained.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

16. Start My Own Business

Start My Own Business

Multi-Level Marketing

The Bare-Bones Basics Of Multi-Level Marketing

Here are the bare bones mechanics of MLM

4. If these 25 each know five people, you have 125. If those 125 know five people, you have 625 at the fourth level buying through you in a distributor's network you built from only five people. If these people purchased only $30 month worth of products, that would be $300,000 in gross sales, and you could expect to earn at least one quarter of that figure, probably much more.

Turn Your PC Into A Profit Center

The Lazy Person Secrets To Overnight Wealth And Fame

Most small businesses need, and would welcome marketing, promotional, advertising, and sales help. If a quick survey of business turns you on with enthusiasm about the potential profits to be made with just a few changes that you can suggest, then you are on your way.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

17. Start My Own Business

Start My Own Business

Multi-Level Marketing

The Bare-Bones Basics Of Multi-Level Marketing

Here are the bare bones mechanics of MLM

3. Rather than send these people to your distributors, you become a sponsored distributor yourself for these new people. And if these people, let's say the are five, know five other who will buy the product, you have 25 people buying products through you.

Turn Your PC Into A Profit Center

The Lazy Person Secrets To Overnight Wealth And Fame

Look around your own area or search out Google. With just a little bit of business sense and perception, you're sure to find hundreds of small businesses that could do better--perhaps even become giants in their--with your help.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

18. Start My Own Business

Start My Own Business

Multi-Level Marketing

The Bare-Bones Basics Of Multi-Level Marketing

Here are the bare bones mechanics of MLM

1. You become involved with an MLM company first as a customer because the product offers substantial quality and savings.

2. Because the products are good, you tell others about them.

Turn Your PC Into A Profit Center

The Lazy Person Secrets To Overnight Wealth And Fame

The beautiful part about this whole concept is that you can repeat this procedure over and over again. You can start out with, say marketing and sales leadership for small, garage-type business; then with your holdings and earnings from that business, invest in another, and keep doing this until you own a part of twenty-five to an unlimited number of businesses. Looking at the idea from a dollar return point of view, if you were getting $200 per month from 25 different business, your monthly income would amount to no less than $5,000 and that's not too bad for a fledgling millionaire.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

19. Start My Own Business

Start My Own Business

Multi-Level Marketing

The Bare-Bones Basics Of Multi-Level Marketing

Here are the bare bones mechanics of MLM

1. You become involved with an MLM company first as a customer because the product offers substantial quality and savings.

2. Because the products are good, you tell others about them.

Turn Your PC Into A Profit Center

The Lazy Person Secrets To Overnight Wealth And Fame

One of the easiest methods of building wealth, and the one most often used by the "smart" people, is to furnish the expertise, equipment or growth capital to promising beginning business. Basically, you buy in as either a part owner or limited partner; then, as the business grows and prospers with your help, you reap your share of rewards.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

20. Start My Own Business

Start My Own Business

Self Publishing

For those who are thinking of Self Publishing as a possible Home Based Business might be "petrified" of the word "computer," let us just say that it should take an ordinary high school graduate no more than one week to learn to prepare this report on an IBM compatible computer with WordPerfect or Microsoft Word and promote yourself on Google.

The Bare-Bones Basics Of Multi-Level Marketing

The root of MLM success is the sponsoring of new people into their businesses, much in the same way sales agents find new retailers to handle their products. Successful organizations such as Amway and Mary Kay and now TriVita have thousands of distributors, but even these had to start with one or two motivated people sponsoring a few other motivated people.

Turn Your PC Into A Profit Center

The Lazy Person Secrets To Overnight Wealth And Fame

There are so many simple, yet really sure-fire ways of acquiring wealth, it's a wonder everybody with even the least bit of ambition isn't already rich. Search out Google, when you come right down to it, the only things needed for anyone to make bundles of money are the long-range vision and the energy to put a money-making plan into force.

One of the easiest methods of building wealth, and the one most often used by the "smart" people, is to furnish the expertise, equipment or growth capital to promising beginning business. Basically, you buy in as either a part owner or limited partner; then, as the busines grows and propers with your help, you reap your share of rewards.

Gary Zeld - SMO Master
eMail: informationalley@gmail.com
708-401-4901
Fax: 928-396-9146
Skype: garyzeld
Start My Own Business

21. Start My Own Business

Start My Own Business

Self Publishing

The Bare-Bones Basics Of Multi-Level Marketing

MLM offers the opportunity for anyone to operate their own home based business. For less than $50 in many cases, you can get involved with a legitimate MLM program and earn from $100 a month to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Most incomes naturally fall between those two extremes, but the earning potential in almost any good company is virtually unlimited. The only limits are set by marketer himself, by his time, energy, persistence, and faith in his product the people he works with. A super start in MLM need only be a caring, sharing person, energetic and highly motivated. Some of the most amazing success stories in MLM have been hard-luck Harry's and bored housewives with no previous marketing or sales experience who learned Google marketing technics and succeeded.

Turn Your PC Into A Profit Center

Secrets Of Getting Free Advertising

continued... Finally, there's nothing in the world that beats the low cost and tremendous exposure you get when you advertise a free offer. Simply run an ad offering a free report of interest to most people--- a simple one page report with a "tag-line" inviting the readers to send money for more information, with a full page advertisement for your book or other product on the backside. Ask for a self-addressed stamped envelope, and depending on the appeal for your report and circulation of the publication in which your ad appears, you could easily be inundated with responses!

The trick here, of course, is to convert all these responses, or a large percentage of them, into sales. This is done via the "tag-line," which issues an invitation to the reader to send for more information, and the full page ad on the back of the report, and other offers you include with the complete package you send back to them. As mentioned at the beginning of this report, it's just a matter of unleashing your imagination. Do that, and you have a powerful force working for you that can help you reach your goals.

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The first multi-level companies sprung up in the 1930's, but they were dinosaurs compared to modern marketing strategies. It wasn't until the mid 60's that MLM gained international prominence. In 1985, with the rise of the Personal Computer and then Google, it is estimated that $5 billion worth of new products will be sold by this method.

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continued... If you send out or publish any kind of catalog or ad sheet, get in touch will all the other publishers and inquire about the possibilities of exchange advertising. They run your ad in their publication in exchange for your running an ad for them of comparable size in yours.

Finally, there's nothing in the world that beats the low cost and tremendous exposure you get when you advertise a free offer. Simply run an ad offering a free report of interest to most people--- a simple one page report with a "tag-line" inviting the readers to send money for more information, with a full page advertisement for your book or other product on the backside. Ask for a self-addressed stamped envelope, and depending on the appeal for your report and circulation of the publication in which your ad appears, you could easily be inundated with responses!

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Multi-level marketing is the biggest growth industry in the 1980's. It is the industry that has made corporate giants of Amway, Shaklee, Mary Kay and Herbalife and soon to be a giant, TriVita.

It has been termed as the last true rags-to-riches opportunity left in North America, and its ability to bring enormous incomes to almost anyone is legend. In fact, searching on Google, it is expected to make more new millionaires by 2200 than any other industry, and soon after will be the single most popular method of bringing new products to the consumer.

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Many publications will give you a contract for space. In this arrangement you send them your ad, and they hold it until they have unsold space, and then at a price that's always one third or less the regular price for the space need, insert your ad. Along these lines, be sure to check in with the suburban neighborhood newspapers.

If you send out or publish any kind of catalog or ad sheet, get in touch will all the other publishers and inquire about the possibilities of exchange advertising. They run your ad in their publication in exchange for your running an ad for them of comparable size in yours.

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Multi-level marketing is the biggest growth industry in the 1980's. It is the industry that has made corporate giants of Amway, Shaklee, Mary Kay and Herbalife. It has been termed as the last true rags-to-riches opportunity left in North America, and its ability to bring enormous incomes to almost anyone is legend. In fact, searching on Google, it is expected to make more new millionaires by 2200 than any other industry, and soon after will

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Be sure to check all the publications that carry the kind of advertising you need. Many mail order publications just getting started offer unusually low rates to first-time advertisers; a free-of-charge insertion of your ad when you pay for an order to run three issues or more; or special seasonal ad space at greatly reduced rates. Look on Google, there are a number of publications that will give you Per Inquiry (PI) space--arrangement where all orders come in to the publication, they take a commission from each order, and then forward the orders on to you for fulfillment.

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Ways To Earn Money With Your Computer

70. Improve small business services

71. Broker used computers!

72. Telecommute

73. Enhance medical diagnosis and treatments

74. Create electronic marketing tools

75. Do independent software documentation

76. Teach people how to use microcomputers

77. Become your own computer book publisher

78. Create computer-generated puzzles and word games

79. Become a software consultant

80. Produce low-cost computer graphics products

81. Develop software for children

82. Perform real estate inspections

83. Do software translations

84. Produced a computer-controlled home security system

85. Automate conference registration

86. Create computer gifts

87. Enhance scientific products

88. Write software for use in the home

89. Manage a winery

90. Design and produce personal computer hardware or peripherals

91. Design, publish and distribute software

92. Provide information vending machines

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Other ways of getting free or very inexpensive exposure include the posting of advertising on Google and posting circulars on all free bulletin boards in your area, especially the coin-operated laundries, grocery stores, and beauty and barber shops. Don't discount the idea of handing out circulars to all the shoppers in busy shopping centers and malls, especially on weekend. You can also enlist the aid of the middle school students in your area to had out circulars door-to-door.

Some of the more routine methods include having a promotional ad relative to your product or service printed on the front or back of your envelopes at the time you have them printed with your return address.

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For those who are in Self Publishing might be "petrified" of the word "computer," let us just say that it should take an ordinary high school graduate no more than one week to learn to prepare this report on an IBM compatible computer with WordPerfect or Microsoft Word and promote yourself on Google.

In Fact It is so easy to earn money with your computer, in the next few days, I will give you over 100 ideas of...

Ways To Earn Money With Your Computer

47. Become a computer dealer

48. Interpret physical therapy test results

49. Manage a restaurant

50. Start your own yellow pages

51. Conduct computer-assisted telephone interviewing

52. Stream-line executive search activities

53. Provide agricultural commodities planning

54. Turn financial statements into financial pictures

55. Manage a museum collection

56. Support consumer education programs

57. Do freelance technical writing

58. Do multi-level direct mail marketing

59. Review specialty software

60. Be an engineering consultant

61. Provide sports information services

62. Produce products for hobbyists

63. Provide specialty-focused software services

64. Run a multi-level, direct sales operation

65. Do litigation management

66. Manage a dairy farm

67. Provided automated debt collection

68. Provide date-base installation and instruction

69. Run a beauty school/beauty salon

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Another really good way is by becoming a guest on as many of the radio and television talk shows or interview type programs as possible. Actually, this is much easier to bring about than most people realize. Look on Google. Write a letter to the producer of these programs, then follow up an in-person visit or telephone call. Your initial contact should emphasize that your product or service would be of interest to the listeners or viewers of the program who have said to themselves, I want to Start My Own Business -- perhaps even saving them time and money.

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24. Analyze real estate investments

25. Support a small law practice

26. Write a book

27. Market collectibles

28. Do psychological counseling

29. Prepare income tax returns

30. Provide economic consulting

31. Solve real estate financing problems

32. Do data base research

33. Publish your own book

34. Design your own small business system

35. Crop management

36. Analyze farm expenses

37. Provide weekly printout of bowling league statistics

38. Make computer-generated portraits

39. Manage investment shelters

40. Manage construction costs

41. Produce computer utility products

42. Provide computer-aided financial planning

43. Sell life insurance

44. Support a small publishing business

45. Provide weekly printout of little league Baseball statistics

46. Run a small pharmacy

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One way is to write an article relative to your particular expertise and submit it to all the publications and media dealing in the dissemination of related information. In other words, become your own Self Publishing and sales promotions writer. Get the word out on Google; establish yourself as an expert in your field, and "tag-along" everything you write with a quick note listing your address for a catalog, dealership opportunity, or more information.

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Ways To Earn Money With Your Computer

1. Provide computer-based office management services for attorneys

2. Do word processing

3. Do medical billing for doctors

4. Do automated telemarketing

5. Manage a church

6. Start a computer user's group

7. Learn to win at blackjack

8. Bet on horse races

9. Bet on pro football

10. Sell computers from your home

11. Provide medical information management

12. Broker information

13. Trade stock by computer

14. Provide astrological services

15. Offer an interactive electronic newsletter

16. Produce book indexes

17. Provide a computer-assisted booking service

18. Make stock market investment decisions

19. Do genealogical research

20. Manage a band

21. Manage a house or pet sitting service

22. Track precious gems

23. Sell information to collectors

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The opportunities for getting free advertising for your product or services,especially on Google, are limited only by your own imagination and energies. There are so many proven ways of promoting your objectives without cost that it literally boggles the mind just to think of listing them.

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Setting Up A Word Processing Business In Your Home

When self publishing at any time, a printed version (draft or final) can be obtained without affecting the stored version. If your margins are set at 1" and you suddenly realize they should be 1/2", you pull your hair out if you are typing.. But on a word processor, you simply press a button, re-set the margins ( a second or two) and the entire document can be repositioned in a flash and reprinted with the new settings by pressing another button.

Major word processors include many features that would make a typist's head "swim": automatic word separation (hyphenation) at the ends of lines, spelling correctors (correct a word a second), the ability to inset illustrations and print in columns (from "normal" input).

For those who are in self publishing might be "petrified" of the word "computer," let us just say that it should take an ordinary high school graduate no more than one week to learn to prepare this report on an IBM compatible computer with WordPerfect or Microsoft Word.

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COMPUTER TRAINING

Computer trainers teach people how to use specific types of equipment and software. For examples, when a company begins using a new word processing system, its employees must be taught to use it. When computer training a computer trainer may conduct these training sessions, either one-on-one or with an entire group.

The most effective to do computer training is to be a good listener as well as talker. Before training employees, ask them about other software packages they've used and what they intend to do with the new package. After all, there's no point in spending two hours telling someone how to do "mail-merge" with a word processor if they never have need for that feature.

Begin by specializing in only a few popular software packages that you know well. Prepare a mailer listing your areas of expertise.

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Whenever you want to see (or edit) the text, you simply recall (load) it back onto the screen, review or revise it, and re- save the revised version back on the same disk.

Or, press a couple of buttons and print it -- in a choice of print styles, margin settings and spacing.

when self publishing at any time, a printed version (draft or final) can be obtained without affecting the stored version. If your margins are set at 1" and you suddenly realize they should be 1/2", you pull your hair out if you are typing.. But on a word processor, you simply press a button, re-set the margins ( a second or two) and the entire document can be repositioned in a flash and reprinted with the new settings by pressing another button.

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COMPUTER CONSULTING

Computer Consultants typically charge per day. Even if this fee is over $100, emphasize to potential clients that your good advice can be worth many times what it costs, since you can suggest cost saving and efficiency-improving purchases.

COMPUTER TRAINING

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Setting Up A Word Processing Business In Your Home

Note that a Word Processing Business was conducted with typewriters a few years ago, but the most expensive typewriters cannot compare with even low priced word processors of today. With a word processor, you type the data, check it on the screen, then file (save) it on a disk (forget about cassettes!).

Whenever you want to see (or edit) the text, you simply recall (load) it back onto the screen, review or revise it, and re- save the revised version back on the same disk.

Or, press a couple of buttons and print it -- in a choice of print styles, margin settings and spacing.

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When you've arrived at a recommendation, write a report and meet with your client to discuss it. After changes have been made to suit your customers, you can assist further by recommending low- cost sources of equipment, and setting up equipment once it is purchased.

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Setting Up A Word Processing Business In Your Home

A Word Processing Business normally earn from $1 to $3 per double spaced standard sized page or $10 to $20 per hour, depending on the location (part of the country, city size), job complexity, typing speed and local demand.

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COMPUTER CONSULTING

A Computer consultant begins by taking the time to learn about a client's business. Thoroughly interview the manager or owner to find out what he or she expects a computer system to do. Observe employees to see what they do and how they might benefit from specific types of equipment or software.

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The word processing program can be very simple one, but we recommend an up-to-date version or a well known, industry compatible program such as WordPerfect or Microsoft Word.

Your working area is very important, especially if you allow customers to come there and if there are any type of interruptions (children head this list). You need a place that is dedicated to your home based business -- where nothing else takes place except business.

Ideally, it should be a separate room (soundproof?), with a locking door and an outside entrance, which will allow clients to enter your office without going through the house on the way to your office.

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COMPUTER CONSULTING

Your home based business can benefit from having one or more personal computers, but very few managers have the time to research fully the hardware and software available when making choices. If you know computers, you can provide a valuable service as a computer consultant, helping clients avoid costly and frustrating mistakes.

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A computer with a word processing program is the basic requirements for a word processing business is a letter quality printer and a dedicated working area.

The computer should be IBM compatible -- the particular brand is not important, so long as it is 100% IBM compatible and you can get a decent service and assistance locally.

The word processing program can be very simple one, but we recommend an up-to-date version or a well known, industry compatible program such as WordPerfect or Microsoft Word.

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BOOKKEEPING, TAX PREPARATION

Small businesses--especially retail stores, with their need to keep inventory--are prime markets for a computerized bookkeeping service. The soft-sell approach works best when promoting this type of business. Clients want to feel that their finances are in the hands of someone who is conservative and trustworthy, not a pushy promoter.

COMPUTER CONSULTING

Most businesses can benefit from having one or more personal computers, but very few managers have the time to research fully the hardware and software available when making choices. If you know computers, you can provide a valuable service as a consultant, helping clients avoid costly and frustrating mistakes.

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Setting Up A Word Processing Business In Your Home

If your business is to grow, you will sooner or later need to upgrade to a word processor. Although the rest of this material is directed to word processing, the same principles apply to typing - only it's a lot more work on a typewriter.

The basic requirements for a word processing business are a computer with a word processing program, a letter quality printer and a dedicated working area.

The computer should be IBM compatible -- the particular brand is not important, so long as it is 100% IBM compatible and you can get a decent service and assistance locally.

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BOOKKEEPING, TAX PREPARATION

Using spread sheet software like Symphony or Lotus 1-2-3, you can keep detailed records of clients books, take care of billing, prepare balance sheets and financial reports, and keep the client aware of his or her financial standing.

Base your fees on the size of the business and the amount of time you need each month working with the client's books. You may want to charge additional fees for extra services such as preparing tax forms, financial statements, and balance sheets.

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A word processing system can be purchased for little more than a modem, self typewriter with a memory -- but it does a thousand times more! If you want to start with a typewriter, we suggest you use the one you have or get a used one ( an old IBm for example) - and not invest any more than absolutely necessary in it.

Because if your business is to grow, you will sooner or later change to a word processor. Although the rest of this material is directed to word processing, the same principles apply to typing - only it's a lot more work on a typewriter.

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BOOKKEEPING, TAX PREPARATION

Many business people love running their work at home businesses but hate the financial record keeping necessary for smooth day-to-day operation. But failure to keep careful records can cause problems at tax time and whenever else a clear financial picture of the business is needed. If you have experience in bookkeeping or accounting, helping business people to keep their books can be an excellent way to make money with your computer.

With spread sheet software like Symphony or Lotus 1-2-3, you can keep detailed records of clients books, take care of billing, prepare balance sheets and financial reports, and keep the client aware of his or her financial standing. (Clients will really be impressed if you use graphic software like Harvard Graphics to prepare charts and graphs that show the financial status of their business.)

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Although much of the work in the pure business of finalizing documents can be accomplished on a typewriter, a typewriter, however, really limits the amount and variety of jobs that can be performed, so it is STRONGLY recommended that anyone contemplating this type of business skip the typewriter stage get some computer training and go directly to a word processor.

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DESKTOP PUBLISHING

Businesses, charitable organizations, professional, and anyone else who needs high-quality printed pieces are potential customers for a desktop publishing business. Print shops don't offer graphic design and typesetting may be willing to steer clients who need these services to you. Direct mail solicitations also may be effective in promoting your services, especially if you include some impressive samples of your self publishing.

BOOKKEEPING, TAX PREPARATION

Many business people love running their businesses but hate the financial record keeping necessary for smooth day-to-day operation. But failure to keep careful records can cause problems at tax time and whenever else a clear financial picture of the business is needed. If you have experience in bookkeeping or accounting, helping business people to keep their books can be an excellent way to make money with your computer.

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Prepare final documents from typed, hand-written or taped drafts, such as student term papers, business letters, legal briefs, manuscripts, resume's and institution reports.

Much of the work in the pure business of finalizing documents can be accomplished on a typewriter, especially a good one (with changeable type, error removal and/or a memory).

A typewriter, however, really limits the amount and variety of jobs that can be performed, so it is STRONGLY recommended that anyone contemplating this type of business skip the typewriter stage get some computer training and go directly to a word processor.

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DESKTOP PUBLISHING

Because desktop publishing is more involved than word processing, it's more difficult to set prices. The best way is to charge by the job, basing your fee on an self publishing hourly rate. When a potential client comes to you, estimate how many hours the work will take, and then quote a package price for the job. (Most customers prefer a package price to paying you an hourly rate, since they can budget in advance how much the project will cost.)

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INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

Unlike established fields, where prices are determined in advance, self publishing, independent projects such as these require you to charge by the word, by the page, by the hour or on a completed project basis. No matter how you quote your fee, estimate your time as accurately as possible. Time spent in research, talking to and interviewing people and organizing material for writing is as important as time spent at the typewriter. Remember to charge enough to cover expenses in addition to time. Typewriter ribbons, paper, postage and envelopes cost money-so does the gasoline you'll use when research involves travel.

Serious self publishing freelancers also have to consider the cost of overhead (heat, water, electricity and a portion of rent or mortgage payments to maintain an in-home office), equipment depreciation and normal employee fringe benefits such as insurance and social security payments when pricing their services. After all, the boss is expected to pick up the tab for these extras. As a freelance writer, you are the boss. And that's a fringe benefit nobody else can give you.

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DESKTOP PUBLISHING

One of the more expensive computer businesses to start is Desktop Publishing. A good laser printer may run $2,000 or more, and desktop publishing software, including a full range of graphics and typestyles, may cost up to $1,000. If you're starting on a tight budget, you can probably put off buying the laser printer. Just work out an arrangement with a print shop or some other business that has a laser printer in which you may print out your finished documents.

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INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

Local businesses and organizations have varied writing needs and could use the help of a self publishing freelance writer. Grant proposals can be written for a flat fee or on a percentage basis. Customer relations pieces such as new service or product introductions and collection letters, annual reports, in house or consumer-aimed newsletters all provide grist for the enterprising freelancer's mill. Even organizations with public relations or customer relations staffs sometimes farm out work on a periodic basis.

Unlike established fields, where prices are determined in advance, independent projects such as these require you to charge by the word, by the page, by the hour or on a completed project basis. No matter how you quote your fee, estimate your time as accurately as possible. Time spent in research, talking to and interviewing people and organizing material for writing is as important as time spent at the typewriter. Remember to charge enough to cover expenses in addition to time. Typewriter ribbons, paper, postage and envelopes cost money-so does the gasoline you'll use when research involves travel.

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DESKTOP PUBLISHING

Haveing a desktop publishing business, you can offer both graphic design and typesetting services at a very competitive price (much lower than customers would pay for a separate graphic designer and typesetter). Even better, if you are a writer ( or can associate with one) you can produce complete documents, from idea to finished piece.

Desktop publishing is one of the more expensive computer businesses to start. A good laser printer may run $2,000 or more, and desktop publishing software, including a full range of graphics and typestyles, may cost up to $1,000. If you're starting on a tight budget, you can probably put off buying the laser printer. Just work out an arrangement with a print shop or some other business that has a laser printer in which you may print out your finished documents.

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INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

Perhaps you could take on a self publishing research and write a history of the area. The local historical society may be interested in your offer to do it for a fee. The high school alumni association may be looking for a class gift to the old alma mater. A school history, researched and written by a professional self publishing freelance writer, would be an handsome addition to the school library, and purchases by class members of yore would add a fund-raising feature. Is you local hospital preparing to celebrate a founding anniversary? a prepared history of the institution, from one-room dispensary/infirmary to today's 200-bed unit would be a wonderful public relations tool for them an a terrific writing job for you.

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DESKTOP PUBLISHING

With a desktop publishing business, you can offer both graphic design and typesetting services at a very competitive price (much lower than customers would pay for a separate graphic designer and typesetter). Even better, if you are a writer ( or can associate with one) you can produce complete documents, from idea to finished piece.

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INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

Established fields for Newspaper stringing, greeting cards and magazine articles are for self publishing freelance writers. Your public library will have books and magazine listing companies seeking freelancers for everything from crossword puzzles to innovative messages for telephone answering machines. But you may wish to explore some areas on your own. Whether you live in a small town or a metropolitan area local organizations and businesses can provide fodder for an impressive client list.

Perhaps the local historical society would be interested in your offer to research and write a history of the area. for a fee. The high school alumni association may be looking for a class gift to the old alma mater. A school history, researched and written by a professional self publishing freelance writer, would be an handsome addition to the school library, and purchases by class members of yore would add a fund-raising feature. Is you local hospital preparing to celebrate a founding anniversary? a prepared history of the institution, from one-room dispensary/infirmary to today's 200-bed unit would be a wonderful public relations tool for them an a terrific writing job for you.

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DESKTOP PUBLISHING

Because its capabilities are so amazing and useful, this new technology promises to grow by leaps and bounds within the next several years. With desktop publishing software, and a laser printer to produce flyers, brochures, booklets, books and nearly any other material that needs to be designed and typeset. The documents that you produce are "camera-ready," meaning that they are ready to be printed up with no additional typesetting, layout or paste-up.

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MAGAZINE ARTICLES Continued...

Publishers guidelines will give you specific instructions for your self publishing manuscript preparation. Regardless of the differences from one company to the next, remember that neatness counts. Use typing correction paper or fluid to repair typographical errors. Strike-overs and hand done corrections appear messy and unprofessional. Each page of your manuscript should have the title of the article and your name, as well as consecutive page numbers for all but the first page.

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Newspaper stringing, greeting cards and magazine articles are established fields for self publishing freelance writers. Your public library will have books and magazine listing companies seeking freelancers for everything from crossword puzzles to innovative messages for telephone answering machines. But you may wish to explore some areas on your own. Whether you live in a small town or a metropolitan area local organizations and businesses can provide fodder for an impressive client list.

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WORD PROCESSING

College campuses are always good places to get customers for a word processing business. If you live near one, prepare attractive flyers to post on bulletin boards around campus. It may also pay to take out a small ad in the campus paper. Stress fast service, since students are notorious for waiting until the last minute to finish assigned papers.

If there is not a college nearby, try advertising in the classified section of the newspaper and mailing flyers to businesses. Small companies may be particularly good customers for word processing service because they may not have secretaries on staff. Larger companies may use you for overflow work or for long projects in which the finished copy must be perfect.

Rates vary depending on where you live; check with other typists to see what they charge. It should be no problem in most places to get $1 per double-spaced page. Be sure to charge extra for footnotes, headlines, or other special formats, since these take more time to type.

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The time it takes for your manuscript to be considered seems interminable. One way to avoid hovering over the mailbox with hope, dread and anxiety fighting for dominance is to keep your self publishing working for you. Don't send off one article and wait for the verdict. Send query letters, greeting card ideas, filler items and articles out constantly, never waiting to hear from one before sending the next. If you receive a rejection, move along to the next prospective publisher for that item, dash off a new cover letter and shoot it out again. You can't sell what's sitting in a reject pile--only what's making the rounds on the market.

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The difference is that word processing allows you to turn better-looking documents in less time than a typewriter. Further good word processing programs let you include headlines, footnotes, and special symbols in documents with little hassle. This flexibility increases the value of your service to potential clients.

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MAGAZINE ARTICLES

While many magazines will not accept manuscripts currently being considered by another publication, you may wish to send query letters to several at the same time. If you are fortunate enough to have more than one of your self publishing articles accepted, you can always write two articles with different slants from the same research.

The time it takes for your manuscript to be considered seems interminable. One way to avoid hovering over the mailbox with hope, dread and anxiety fighting for dominance is to keep the mailbox working for you. Don't send off one article and wait for the verdict. Send query letters, greeting card ideas, filler items and articles out constantly, never waiting to hear from one before sending the next. If you receive a rejection, move along to the next prospective publisher for that item, dash off a new cover letter and shoot it out again. You can't sell what's sitting in a reject pile--only what's making the rounds on the market.

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WORD PROCESSING

Typing reports, papers, dissertations, letters, and other documents for students, writers, and businesses is a common way to make money with a computer. Indeed, using a word processor is just a high-tech version of the old-fashioned typing service.

The difference is that word processing allows you to turn better- looking documents in less time than a typewriter. Further good word processing programs let you include headlines, footnotes, and special symbols in documents with little hassle. This flexibility increases the value of your service to potential clients.

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Self Publishing is a tremendous wage earner. Many publications will not accept unsolicited manuscripts. Even those that would rather read a well-written, creative letter outlining a proposed article than wade through a 2,000 word piece to find it acceptable. Your query letter can be open the door that might have been slammed in the face of your un reviewed work-especially if it is an example of proficient writing and piques the editor's interest in your subject and the angle you're planning to use.

While many magazines will not accept manuscripts currently being considered by another publication, you may wish to send query letters to several at the same time. If you are fortunate enough to have more than one acceptance, you can always write two articles with different slants from the same research.

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WORD PROCESSING

Self Publishing, typing reports, papers, dissertations, letters, and other documents for students, writers, and businesses is a common way to make money with a computer. Indeed, word processing is just a high-tech version of the old-fashioned typing service.

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MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Like greeting card companies, magazine publishers will send you guidelines including style and subject matter as well as pay scales. Don't waste your time sending an article on the joys of a New England vacation to a publication specializing in recreation opportunities in the Ozarks. Guidelines firmly in mind, come up with an idea suitable for the particular publication and follow up with a query letter.

Many publications will not accept unsolicited manuscripts. Even those that would rather read a well-written, creative letter outlining a proposed article than wade through a 2,000 word piece to find it acceptable. Your query letter can be open the door that might have been slammed in the face of your un reviewed work-especially if it is an example of proficient writing and piques the editor's interest in your subject and the angle you're planning to use.

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The software you can use as the basis of a business is generally easy to learn and use. With some software, you can go from novice to expert in just a few weeks, if you make an effort to learn computer training and spend time practicing.

Here are eight ways you can profit from computers. Don't be afraid to adapt each idea to fit your preferences and the needs of the people in your area. In particular, you may want to incorporate several of these services into one business, possibly increasing your profit potential.

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MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Thousands of special interest and trade publications are sold every year. Each is filled with articles, many of them written by freelancers. The trick is to find the right magazine for your article, and tailor your article for that magazine.. If you're a whiz at coupon redeeming, refunding and rebating, consider sharing your expertise with others in an article in Supermarket Shopper. No matter what your area of interest, there's a publication waiting to let you tell it all.

Building a good relationship with your editor through good writing, dependability and strict adherence to deadlines may enable you to successfully put forth your own ideas for feature stories and articles. You may be able to negotiate a higher rate of pay for these pieces. Don't forget to ask for a by-line. Part of the thrill of freelance writing is seeing your name in print.

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Even though personal computers have been around for several years, the market is still growing in many areas. With some imagination and initiative, you can join the thousands of entrepreneurs who are using computers to make money in such businesses as word processing, bookkeeping, desktop publishing, and computer training or sales.

Don't despair if you don't have a computer, or even if you don't know much about them. Today's computer equipment is relatively inexpensive, making computer-related businesses among the least expensive to start.

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GREETING CARDS

Visit your local card shop. There are hundreds of cards, many expressing the same sentiments. Each one is different, and somebody earned money for each of them. The greeting card industry relies heavily on freelance submissions. Each company has its own style; it is futile to fire off ideas randomly hoping to hit pay dirt. Companies will send writer guidelines to those who accompany the request with a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE).

This basic checklist will tell you the subject matter of preference (some companies may deal solely with inspirational messages while others want only adult humor studio cards), the correct method of presentation, length of time should wait for a response and the pay range for accepted ideas. You don't have to be an artist. Greeting card companies want your ideas and captions, although suggestions for accompanying artwork will be appreciated. remember, what may be unsuited to one company's needs could be deemed irresistible by another. Don't throw away any ideas in discouragement after one rejection. Submit, submit and resubmit should be your credo.

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Most people are dreamers not "doers". It is only a short step to be a doer... Just do it!

Ship your orders without delay. Don't hold them up for checks to clear. It will do you much more damage than getting a few bad checks. Offer a free bonus for "buying today".

Get quality printing for use with all your paper needs (letterheads, envelopes, circulars, sales letters, return envelopes, order forms, etc.)

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STRINGING

Many local and regional newspapers, unable to maintain enough full-time staff to adequately cover ever meeting or event of importance to the populace, will assign certain stories to stringers, or freelance reporters. Assignments may vary as widely as covering a church circle meeting for the weekly religion page to reporting on a town council meeting in a neighboring village. The editorial staff will tell you what they want, when they want it and what you can expect to be paid. Stringers are paid by the word, by the line or by the column inch, and while rate varies from one newspaper to another, it is a set fee which cannot be negotiated.

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Most people are dreamers not "do'ers". It is only a short step to be a do'er... Just do it!

Sometimes it is better to write a strong ad before you write the report, then make the report live up to your ad. Make your ads friendly.

Write about a special subject in a unique way: Strive to write in such a way that you will get repeat orders or will receive orders from the same customers for your other books and products. Have a follow-up program ready to go.

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Just as all doctors are not neurosurgeons, all writers are not novelists. A look into the field yields categories you might never have imagined. Magazine articles, greeting cards, business writing, newspaper reporting-these are areas in which freelance can add do make money. Writing provides an opportunity to earn with very little expenditure. A typewriter with accompanying supplies, a flair for writing and the discipline to stick with a schedule and meet deadlines can start you on your way.

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It pays to make up a good advertising schedule several months in advance and when you do hit the pages with your ads, be sure they "Drip" with enthusiasm!

The title is of the greatest importance. It alone can determine the sales volume to a large degree. Price your report so that you can come out with a good profit. You will want to make tests to see if your publication will bring in the required price before going into full scale advertising.

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Your novel sits unfinished, waiting for a burst of inspiration to send it out to be typewriter and right to the top of the best seller lists, right? You are not alone. Thousands of those who would-be self publishing writers are waiting as well. But a few successes under your belt will make the possibility of seeing your picture on the dust jacket in the bookstore window seem less remote. Freelance writing can replace self-doubt with self-confidence and put money in your pocket at the same time.

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When the writing bug hits you, get out your pencil, typewriter, word processor or tape recorder and go to work.

Personal wants and desires, such as "How to Make Money" can put you on the road to success in the writing field. there are five main emotional appeals for selling this kind of publication: Money, Self Preservation, Family, Romance, Recognition. These appeals can all be built into your writings.

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Another form of backup that is becoming very popular is the use of what are called key, or pen drives. Key drives are tiny drives but can still hold up to a gigabyte or more of data.

For added security, important files can be copied to an external hard drive, flash drive or CD, or sent to another computer via email. When doing your writing, email to yourself whatever that has been written up to a certain point by using one of the web-based email accounts such as Yahoo or Gmail.

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In closing, let me say that the most important ingredient of your eventual success will be the soundness of the planning you did before you started your business. Any number of bad things can really throw your business into a tailspin, but it you've done your homework well - really set up a detailed business plan before starting - your losses or setbacks will be minimal. Success takes planning, and within this report, you've got a basic checklist...The rest is up to you...Good luck, and may your life overflow with success in all that you undertake from this moment forward.

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I promised some tips I would give the Next time in computer training, some simple and quick tips for you to make your backup a breeze. Here they are:

1) have the disaster recovery option enabled when performing a back up. It can speed recovery of your system after a hard drive crash or similar failure where your data is lost. Fully restore your system without installing any of the original software or operating system.

2) If you have only one drive, buy another one. Hard drives are inexpensive today. Another hard drive will allow you to backup another copy of your data.

I'll Give a few more tips next time.

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Basically, arranging for your suppliers to give you materials on credit will depend upon your honesty and personal financial statement. The best way is usually a personal visit to the person with the power to approve or disapprove of credit at the company where you want to set up a credit account. Show him your financial statement, and explain your prospects for success. Then assure him that you've always honored all of your obligations, and that if ever there's a question or problem, you'd like for him to call you at home. And of course, give him your home phone number.

We won't go into the exigencies of advertising your products, services or business here, but there is something along these lines you should always keep in mind. The best kind of advertising your business can receive is that you don't really pay for - publicity.

When something unusual happens to you, your business, or your employees - that's news, so be sure to tell the news media in your area about it.

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External Hard Drives: If you need larger data storage space, external hard drives are an excellent choice. Arrays, or stacks, of hard drives are available for corporate uses and are provided by all good hard drive manufacturers. Seagate, Maxtor, ASB, LaCie all make external hard drives of varying capacities and prices. Online and Offline Storage Spaces: These are ‘spaces’ provided by professional firms, and are extremely secure for sensitive data storage. Tapes and Printouts: Traditional storage should not be left out of the list. There is some information that one simply needs to see on the good old piece of paper. Tape has been in use for a long time now, and I'm sure will continue in the future.

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As the sole proprietor of a business, you won't be paid as an employee, so there will be no income tax deducted from whatever you withdraw from the company's earnings. What you'll have to do is a gain check with the IRS Office for a Tax Guide For Small Businesses Handbook, and probably end up filing an estimated tax return on a quarterly basis.

The minute you open your doors for business, you'll have to spend some time engaged in the work of bookkeeping. Exactly how, and using what forms, you keep books, should be on the recommendations of a good tax counselor...The same holds true for your overall business and/or payroll accounting system. Look for an experienced CPA that knows the accounting problems to your particular kind of business, and solicit his advise/counseling.

If your business is going to involve the possible purchase or lease of operating equipment, again seek the help of your tax counselor for the most advantageous method of obtaining the needed equipment.

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Hard Drive

The hard drive keeps all of your information, files and folders, music, videos, favorite websites, and programs. If your hard drive is bad, there's no reason to keep it. In terms of fixing a computer if the hard drive isn't salvageable then most people don't even want to bother with the rest, because the cost of buying a new one is most likely not much more than trying to fix the old one. Generally a hard drive does not fail until years down the road from when it was new. So the next best option rather than replacing the drive is to just buy a new computer, because your old one sure will probably be too costly to fix.

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Regardless of how small your business is when you begin, never walk in with the thought in mind that it's something to keep you busy. Anyone with an attitude of that kind is a fool. You begin and make a business successful in order to realize financial freedom. Establish your business. Put it on its feet, and then hire other people to do the work for you. And those businesses that require an operations manager, or someone to run a phase of the business you're too busy to handle, hire the person needed or the business will surely suffer.

To protect the investment of your business, you need business insurance. If you've never had any experience with business insurance, simply look under the heading of "business insurance" in your phone directory. Ask for bids from several different companies or agents...Primarily, you should have a policy that gives you general liability, fire, workmen's compensation, business interruption, and vehicle coverage. You may also want coverage against possible losses related to burglary, robbery, Life & Accident, Key Man, and Fidelity Bonds.

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USB Devices: These have become very popular all over the world. The proof of the popularity of this technology is because of two facts. First, the storage space of pen drives - flash drives - memory sticks is constantly increasing. And second, their prices keep dropping rapidly. Almost all kinds of files can be stored on these; they are very easy to carry, do not require a separate software or booting up of the computer to work, and they are very convenient to share the data stored on them. For storing music, an iPod may be an option too.

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When your business grows to the point of needing additional help, don't be afraid to look for and hire the help you need. When you're ready to hire someone, simply run an ad in your local paper and/or register your needs with the local office of your state's employment service. Businesses either grow or die, and those that grow eventually need more people in order to continue growing.

When that time comes, hire the additional people you need, and your business will continue growing. If you don't, for whatever reason, you'll find yourself married to your business and your business growth stymied.

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Sometimes we are too busy with our work and tend to forget to backup our data every once in a while. This can lead to some serious consequences. The other problem is that most people never think a hard drive crash will happen to them.

This can be mentality devastating. We are usually taken by complete surprise, and we want desperately to get our files,photos, writings and every thing else back on our computer. When this happened to me, I lost so many files, I did not even remember much of what I lost. To avoid this nightmare again, I had to ask myself what I was going to do to prevent something like this in the future? Next time in computer training, I will list some simple and quick tips for you to make your backup a breeze.

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Some of the other things to consider before you start a business - If you intend to employ one or more employees, you'll be required to deduct Federal Income Taxes, and Social Security payments from their checks. This will involve your filing for a Federal Tax Number and necessitates contact with your local IRS Office.

Most states have "unemployment taxes" which will have to be deducted from the paychecks of any employees you hire. And there are a number of states that have income taxes - disability insurance - and any number of other taxes. Again, the best thing to do before I start my own business, is check with your local office of the IRS. And above all else, don't forget to ask for the rules of the minimum wage law, and comply.

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Memory

In order for a file to be useful it has to be readable. To do this you need to know the name and path of the file. From this the file system can determine where the file is stored.

In some cases it is not possible to simply read all of the file into memory. File systems also allow you to reposition the read pointer within a file. To perform this operation the system needs to know how far into the file you want the read pointer to jump. An example of where this would be useful is a database system. When a query is made on the database it may be inefficient to read the whole file up to the point where the required data is, instead the application managing the database determines where in the file the required information is and jump to it. This is often known as a file seek.

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You may also run into a requirement for an air and/or water pollution control permit. These specifically apply to any business that burns anything, discharges anything into the sewers or waterways, or use any gas-producing product, such as a paint sprayer.

Without a doubt, you'll need to check on local regulations relating to advertising display signs. Each city or township makes its own rules and then enforces those rules according to its own thinking -check before you contract to have a sign made for your business.

The design and placement of your sign is very important to your business - specifically to retail establishments - but let me remind you that your business sign is usually the first thing a potential customer sees and as such, it should catch his eye and leave an impression that lasts. It would be a good idea to ride around your town and take a look at the signs that catch your eye, and try to determine the impression of the business that sign leaves on you. This is a basic learning formula for determining the design, size and placement of your business sign.

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Power Supply Calculator

If your system has recently been upgraded or you added new hard drives, disk drives, a graphics card or anything for that matter, you need to check if your power supply is being overloaded. A good way to check is to use a power supply calculator. Problems can occur due to your power supply being unable provide enough juice.

The first thing to do is check the power supply connectors, make sure everything is plugged into the motherboard and the power cable is plugged into the power supply, many people forget to plug in their computer. Many power supplies also have a power switch on them so check that it it on. Check the fan to see if it is spinning at the correct speed and blow it out if it’s dusty. Determine if the power supply cables are giving out the right amount of voltage, if you computer will let you boot you should be able to check them in the BIOS menu to see if the correct voltages are being given. Normal power supplies give +3.3 volts DC, +5 volts DC, -5 volts DC, +12 volts DC, and -12 volts DC.

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Better Back up Your Data

How you back up your data will depend entirely up to what security system you have chosen. They usually have a back up system they encourage to use. However, if a large volume of data to be stored, out side companys offer back ups for as low as $50 per year. Other common methods listed below: CD-ROM and Floppy Disks: Due to its many limitations, small capacity and security problems, the floppy has largely gone out of use by now,. The CD-ROM is a good choice for obtaining backups, and is one of the top choices in both domestic and corporate environs. It is cheap, readily available, portable and compatible with several file formats. Storing a CD-ROM and sharing information from it are also quite simple. DVD: The DVD is the choice for storing audio visual information. It may not be as cheap as the CD, but offers better quality, often lasts longer, and has way more space. DVD RWs can be used in such a way that literally every bit is used to store information.

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Any business that sells or distributes food in any manner almost always requires a county health department permit. If your business falls into this category, simply call the county health department and invite them out to your place of business for an inspection. The fees generally range from about $25, depending on the size of your business when they first inspect it for permit approval. There are also a number of businesses that require inspection by a fire Marshall, and fire department approval. Generally, these are those that handle flammable materials or attract large numbers of people, such as a theater. Overall, the local fire department has to be allowed to inspect your premises whenever they desire to do so.

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File Systems

In order for a file system to be able to create a file, there must be enough space left on the drive for the file to fit. No other file in the directory can have the same name, and as soon as the file is created, the system will make a record of all its attributes.

Also, we may want or need to edit the file. This may be simply adding some copy or data to it or removing or replacing copy or data already stored in it. When doing this the system keeps a cursor marking the spot where the next operation to the file should take place.

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Any business doing business in any type of interstate commerce is subject to federal regulations, usually through the Federal Trade Commission. This means that any business that shops, sells or advertises in more than one state is subject to such regulation, and this includes even the smallest of mail order operations.

Normally, very few business people ever have and contact with the federal regulatory agencies. The only exceptions being when there is a question of your operating your business unethically or illegally.

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Power Supply

If you suspect your power supply is giving you trouble, check it out fast, because faulty power supplies can make trouble with the rest of your system as well. Irregular voltages sent from the power supply can short circuit and overheat your components and making them unusable. Some faulty power supplies have even caught on fire, but if you’re lucky it might just smoke a little and start to smell. A few signals that your power supply is bad or is going bad would be erratic and seemingly random system behavior like system hangs and crashes, burning smells and of course smoke.

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Some states also require certain businesses to hold state licenses, such as those required in many states for TV Repairmen.

These are known as "occupational permits" and are most often required of barbers, hair stylists, real estate people and a number of other consumer oriented businesses. If you have any doubts, check with your state offices for a list of those occupations that require licensing.

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You need to learn that basic computer training teaches that some file systems also store data about which user created a file and at what time they created it. Although this is not essential to the running of the file system it is useful to the users of the system.

In order for a file system to function properly they need a number of defined operations for creating, opening and editing a file. Almost all file systems provide the same basic set of methods for manipulating files.

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Should your business entail selling your products or services across state lines, in another state, you're not required to collect taxes except in those where you have offices or stores.

You may find also that your particular business requires the collection of Federal Excise Taxes. For information along these lines, check in with your local office of the Internal Revenue Service.

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With basic computer training you also will learn there are many different data recovery software programs you can use to recover your files; some of them even let you browse through your deleted files to see what you would like to retrieve. There are processes that can recover and restore your deleted files in seconds! Once the data has been recovered from you hard drive you have the option to either save it to another folder on a different hard drive or storage device, or you can burn it directly to CD. Once your files have been successfully recovered by the data recovery software, all your information stays the same, which is to say that nothing will have been changed, even in the event of a virus overload, the file names and all the date will still be in tact.

A little computer training teaches that some file systems also store data about which user created a file and at what time they created it. Although this is not essential to the running of the file system it is useful to the users of the system. In order for a file system to function properly they need a number of defined operations for creating, opening and editing a file. Almost all file systems provide the same basic set of methods for manipulating files.

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Learning The Basics - 4

With basic computer training you learn there are numerous signs of motherboard failure. The computer may not boot up, or maybe it it not not reaching the POST test, perhaps erratic system behavior. There can be different combinations of components not working. Because everything is connected to the motherboard certain parts may or may not work correctly if the motherboard is faulty so be sure to test those parts before thinking they're dead and getting new ones. Also make sure that all of the jumpers are set correctly as well.

A little computer training teaches that all files have a name by which they can be accessed by the user. In most modern file systems the name consists of of three parts, its unique name, a period and an extension. For example the file 'sally.jpg' is uniquely identified by the first word 'sally', the extension jpg indicates that it is a jpeg image file. The file extension allows the operating system to decide what to do with the file when opened. The operating system maintains a list of file extension associations. Should a user try to access 'sally.jpg' then it would most likely be opened in whatever the systems default image viewer is.

Bad motherboard problems are also similar to problems caused by a faulty or dying power supply, so check if the power supply is faulty or swap it out for another to see if your problem is fixed. Try swapping out the motherboard to see if that solves your problem, if that's the case then the motherboard is most likely faulty. this is where computer training come in handy.If you think the motherboard is faulty and it is still in warranty you should be able to send it back to the manufacturer for a new one with no hassle, sometimes they might even pay for the shipping & handling if it is a big problem that is happening with a certain line of motherboards. Make sure that when you open a motherboard you keep all of the packaging and the box, and if there are any stickers that will void the warranty if removed make sure you do NOT remove them, so that way it is easier to send back.

Information about the files protection is also integrated into the file system. Protection can range from the simple systems implemented in the FAT system of early windows where files could be marked as read-only or hidden to the more secure systems implemented in NTFS where the file system administrator can set up separate read and write access rights for different users or user groups.

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The motherboard is the heart of the computer, every part of the computer relies on the motherboard to function correctly. Solid computer training is needed to self diagnose it. The motherboard maintains connection between every PC component and ensures that things are operating smoothly between them. A visual inspection of the motherboard to make sure all cables are seated properly, the fans are working, and that the CMOS battery is in it's proper place, is a precursor to a more detailed inspection. Any broken or leaking capacitors, can immediately render a motherboard dead.

Many signs of motherboard failure is the computer not booting up, or not reaching the POST test, erratic system behavior, different combinations of components not working. Because everything is connected to the motherboard certain parts may or may not work correctly if the motherboard is faulty so be sure to test those parts before thinking they're dead and getting new ones. Also make sure that all of the jumpers are set correctly as well.

There are two main ways of retrieving lost data using a data recovery software, one being when the file you are retrieving has been recently deleted, the other option is to recover everything that has been on the hard disk and from there you find what you are looking for.

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Learning The Basics - 2

A file is a collection of binary data. A file may contain a program, a document or in some cases part of the file system itself. In today's computing it is typical for their to be several different storage devices attached to the same computer. A data structure such as a file system allows the computer to access many different storage devices in the same way. Computer training will teach you that files can have very different data structures within them but can all be accessed by the same methods built into the file system. For example, when you look at the contents of a hard drive or a cd you view it through the same interface even though they are completely different mediums with the information situated on them in completely different ways.

If you lose your data,you can use data recovery software to recover information from your local hard drive, or any other data source. However, a hard drive crash is no match for data recovery software. You will still be able to recover basically every piece of information that was on you hard drive like your data files and documents, email messages, video files as well as music and photos.

for today's computer training, your computer the screen suddenly turns all black. Of course you would check to see if the monitor is on and is receiving power, and make sure you check your cables and everything is properly connected. then make sure the problem was not caused by a change in a software setting in Windows or some other option in the motherboard’s BIOS that causes your problem. If it is still black, you could swap out your monitor with another monitor that you know is working to see if the problem is the monitor itself and nothing else or you can try to see if the problem is your graphics card. If your replacement monitor works, good, then you know the source of your problem. You should get a new one because monitors are dangerous and too costly service. If the monitor is not the problem, the next thing you’d do is check to make sure the graphics card is properly seated in the motherboard, if it is and the display is still not showing up, then swap out the graphics card.

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Learning The Basics

The amount of time you spend to learn basic computer training on your own will depend on your learning skills and the amount of time you can devote to your studies. For example, a regular student can achieve his/her goals faster, than a non regular student. This is because a regular student is prepared to spend more time for his/her studies than someone who has a regular job or has a tight daily schedules

File systems are an integral part of any operating systems with the capacity for long term storage. With computer training you learn that here are two distinct parts of a file system, the mechanism for storing files and the directory structure into which they are organized. In today's operating systems it is possible for several user to access the same files simultaneously so it has also become necessary for such features as access control and different forms of file protection to be implemented.

You may want to troubleshoot your computer, well, one actually and that’s because something is not working right. The process of troubleshooting is something you learn after working for a long time with computers. Often enough when there’s a problem, nothing is going to explicitly tell you what is causing the problem and how you can fix it. By taking steps through the process of troubleshooting, with proper computer training, you should be able to solve almost any computer problem, software or hardware related. It involves identifying any problems, finding their cause, determining the solution, and testing and checking to see if your problem is solved.

Data recovery is needed when serious situations and accidents occur to your system, like when a virus enters your system and deletes some of your files and information, or even if you have computer training and you still accidentally delete a file that you really need, which is quite possible. The great thing is that most data recovery software works sufficiently with most computers and operating systems.

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Secrets On How To Start A Business - Part 9

For corporations, you'll also need a corporate resolution approving of the opening of your business account.

There are different policies exercised in just about every state regarding installation/hook-up charges by the telephone and utility companies. Some require a deposit, and some don't.

You'll find that a great number of city business license departments are there solely for the purpose of collecting another tax. Depending on the type of business you're asking a license for, the building and zoning people may inspect your premises for soundness of structure and safety. Generally, you won't encounter any difficulties - you simply pay your fee to operate your business in that city, and the clerk types your name onto a city license certificate.

Relative to sales tax permits and licenses, each state's rules and regulations very widely. The best thing to do is call your state offices and ask for information concerning registry and collection procedures. Many states require an advance deposit or bond, and you'll find that some wholesalers or manufacturers will not sell to you at wholesale prices until you can show them your sales tax permit or number.

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Secrets On... How To Start A Business - Part 8

Some of the questions you should ask of your banker include the following:

Is it necessary to maintain a certain balance in your account before the bank will approve a loan for you? What qualifications must you have in order to obtain a line of credit with the bank?

Does the bank limit the number of loans, or types of loans it will approve for small, or work at home businesses,

What is the bank's policy regarding the size of a check you might deposit that requires holding for collection?

And what about checks less than that amount - will they be immediately credited to your account?

In almost all types of businesses, it will be to your benefit to set up with your bank, a method of handling VISA, Master Charge, and regional credit cards. The important thing here is to ultimately set up your account in the bank that will service all of these credit transactions for you - one stop for all your banking needs. In most instances, you'll find that having computer training will make it easier for you to have the capability to fill orders/make sales via credit card transactions, will increase your volume of sales appreciatively.

Once you've made the decision as to which bank is going to handle your account, you'll need your Social Security Number or your Federal Employer's Identification Number, your driver's license, the fictitious name certificate, and if you're requesting a VISA or Master Charge franchise, you'll also need a financial statement.

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Secrets On How To Start A Business - Part 7

When you work at home, try to become acquainted with as many of the bank employees as possible. The better you know them, the more courtesies they'll be extending especially to you in the course of your association.

Just as you me be a specialist in computer training, and a doctor is a specialist in his field, and you go to him for medical problems, your banker is a specialist in his field and you should go to him for your money problems. In business, you'll have to learn that everyone is an expert in his own line of work, and in your associations with other business people, refrain from acting like a "sharpie" and/or pretending that you know exactly how everything works in someone else's specialty.

You'll find that very often, different banks specialize in different types of businesses. As an example, you're sure to find banks that specialize in real estate transactions, work at home import export businesses, and even manufacturing operations only.

What I'm saying here is that if you're planning to sell a fairly expensive item, your customers will probably need and/or want financing. It will behoove you to select a bank familiar with your type of product that will afford your customers, through you, contract financing.

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Secrets To Successfully Starting Your Own Business - Part 6

Selecting a name for your work at home business is quite important to you and particularly relative to advertising. Your business name should describe the product or services you offer. Fancy names such as, Linda's Clipping Service will lose potential "walk-in and passing" customers to the beauty shop across the street that calls itself, Patti's Beauty Salon or Jane's Hair Styling Shop.

The advantage of using your full name in the title of your business, such as Johnny Jones' Meat Lockers, has the advantage of allowing you to brand yourself on the internet and with computer technology can make credit somewhat easier to come by - provided you pay your bills on time - but it also includes the disadvantage of confining your services to a local or at most, a regional area.

Definitely, you should open a business bank account. In selecting a bank for your business, scout around and look for one that can, and will help you. Determine what your banking needs will be, and then via telephone, interview the managers of the banks in your area. The important convenient bank to your business location. This is also an area where some computer training will come in handy. On line banking is very convenient and you will have access to up to the minute reports.

A point to remember: the closer you can make the relationship between you and the bank manager, the better your chances are going to be for approval on loans and/or special favors you may need at a later date.

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Should you buy, lease, or rent a space for your business? think twice before you make any decision along these lines. Most businesses tend to grow quickly or they never get off the ground.

There are a few exceptions, but only a very few, that tend to grow at a modified rate.

So, buying a piece of property and setting up your business on or within that property, obligates you to ownership regardless of what happens to your business.

Leases are almost always very strong contracts written by attorneys to the advantage of the property-owner. When you sign an agreement to pay someone for the use of their space over any length of time, you're "nailed in" to paying for that space regardless of what happens to your business.

In the beginning, it's wise to either get the shortest-term lease possible, or arrange to rent with an option to lease at a later date. This does not apply to a retail business, unless your particular business happens to be an untried one.

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Secrets To Successfully Starting Your Own Business - Part 4

Even with a work at home business the often advertised advantage of incorporating, that you can manipulate your salary in order to save on tax dollars, is real because of corporation laws. However, the IRS frowns on this practice. When your business is successful and making a lot of money, definitely check with your accountant on the advantages of incorporating.

As a corporation, you'll be subject to a number of other drawbacks as well: generally higher state taxes, stricter laws concerning the operation of your business, more elaborate accounting procedures, the more computer training you will need because the legal papers that are required increase just about every time you make a major move or sign almost any contract. Thus, your legal and accounting fees will be much higher as a corporation than will those required for a sole proprietorship type of business.

As a sole proprietor or partnership, you'll find many areas require the registration of your business name. The cost however, is minimal, ranging from $5 to $100. About the best way to find out what laws apply in your area, is to call your bank and ask if they need a fictitious name registration card or certificate in order for you to open a business account.

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Computer Technology

Secrets To Successfully Starting Your Own Business - Part 3

Unless you have a partnership and start your business as such, the only real advantage to forming a corporation would appear to be that a corporate structure will semi-protect the property you personally own.

As an example, you own a home and car. You form a corporation to protect these possessions from business losses. Yet, if you can be found guilty of misusing corporate funds, your business creditors can pierce the corporate shield and come after your possessions.

Basically, if you invest everything you have in your business, as most newcomers do, you don't usually need a corporation because you have nothing to protect. Your household possessions, personal belongings, generally your car, and even a portion of the equity in your home is protected by the homestead provision of the Federal Bankruptcy Act, and cannot be taken away from you.

As a sole proprietor or partner of a business you'll be paying taxes on your overall earnings, much the same as if you were holding down a salaried or hourly paid job. Whether you do or don't take out money as a salary will have no bearing on the earnings of your business and tax return.

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As much as anything else, for many people starting a business is a form of ego-gratification, and they form a corporation for some sort of prestige gain - just to say, "I own a corporation."

With just a little bit of observation, you'll find that one of the major causes of business failures is due to the founder wasting start-up capital on frills, such as an impressive store-front office, expensive furnishings, and corporate legal costs.

One of the basic traits you must develop if you're going to be successful in business, is a tight hold on your expenditures. In fact, a good rule of thumb is that anything that does not make money for you give you computer training or protect your investment, should not be purchased at this time. Very definitely, this applies to the expense of setting up your own corporation.

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Secrets To Successfully Starting Your Own Business

The American Dream is, and always will be, to come up with an idea, start a business and become rich from your own efforts. Based upon this motivation, thousands of businesses fail each year, due primarily to not being familiar with the basics involved in running a business and little or no computer training.

This report will enlighten you, and give you a number of suggestions you can use to better guarantee your chances for success. This report is written with the warning that any and every business venture contains certain inherent risks, and any number of alternatives. We do not espouse that any one way is the right way or that our suggestions are the only way. On the contrary, we advise that before investing any money in a business venture, you get some basic computer training and seek counseling and help from a qualified accountant and/or attorney.

Just about the first thing you should consider before deciding to start or purchase a business is the legal form you'll be operating under. There are basically four choices: sole proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, and/or corporation.

Each has a number of advantages and disadvantages. We'll try to enumerate some of them for you.

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Manage Your Growth

Many computer consultants opt to stay one person operation. One of the attractions of being your own work at home boss is that you can leave behind the hassles and politics of corporate life. The flip side of that coin is that the only funds coming into the business are your own billable hours in any given day. Owners of large computer-consulting firms reap a percentage of every dollar earned by each associate. There are many trade-offs involved in being self-employed. Neither option is going to be a walk in the park. But the most important thing to keep in mind is to manage your company's growth. Don't get in over your head, just take one step at a time and keep an eye on the road ahead.

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Become A Computer Consultant - Part 6

You may also want to round out your computer technology services by writing articles for magazines or publications or giving seminars or workshops. These types of endeavors can help provide additional revenues and expand your network for both clients and subcontractors.

If you billable hours fall off, you will want to devote more time to marketing but remember, no matter how much money you already to have to do, your's is a finite service and sooner or later, you're going to need new business. So never forget to continue to market..., network, and expand your client base. This will help to curtail the roller-coaster ride many new and/or small businesses face.

Common courtesy will also help your gain referrals and keep your clients happy. Send a thank you note to clients to let them know that you appreciate their business. Make follow up calls to let them know that you are concerned that the services you provided them are effective and producing the results you were anticipating. A little personal touch here and there can keep your name in the minds of the most hard core business person.

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Computer Technology

Become A Computer Consultant - Part 5

You may also want to round out your Work at home services by writing articles for magazines or publications or giving seminars or workshops. These types of endeavors can help provide additional revenues and expand your network for both clients and subcontractors.

If you billable hours fall off, you will want to devote more time to marketing but remember, no matter how much money you already to have to do, your's is a finite service and sooner or later, you're going to need new business. So never forget to continue to market..., network, and expand your client base. This will help to curtail the roller-coaster ride many new and/or small businesses face.

Common courtesy will also help your gain referrals and keep your clients happy. Send a thank you note to clients to let them know that you appreciate their business. Make follow up calls to let them know that you are concerned that the services you provided them are effective and producing the results you were anticipating. A little Computer Technology and there can keep your name in the minds of the most hard core business person.

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Computer Technology

Become A Computer Consultant - Part 4

To Market or Not to Market?

When starting any new business, the main focus must be on effective marketing. The first contacts will be the most difficult and will probably require references. However, after you reach your capacity, you will have a tendency to solely concentrate on the computer training aspect and slack off on your marketing. You'll be so busy with one or two clients that you'll forget that there is an end to the work and to the income. Suddenly, the work will be are starting all over gain. It is absolutely essential to keep marketing even when things are at their most hectic.

A certain percentage of your time should be spent bringing in new business no matter how busy your are. You will have to decide what percentage of time allows you to keep an even flow of business coming in and out. You will find yourself only spending a portion of your time in "billable hours." A certain amount of time must be spent doing administrative functions, like billing and taxes. Another portion of your work must be spent in staying up-to-date with current computer technology and developments in the industry and with software and hardware innovations.

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Balance What You Know and Who You Know

Since you can't possibly know all there is to know about computers, even with much computer training, you'll need to make contacts in the industry who can assist you when you come up against a situation you're not qualified to handle. You will want to compile a network of professionals you can call on to fill any voids you find as you go along. You have the option to subcontract to other consultants (many university professors, for example, free-lance as consultants).

You may want to put your subcontractors on the payroll or you may simply wish to put your client in touch with your source and then step quietly out of the picture. You may not receive immediate remuneration for the recommendation, but the long-term benefits can be well worth your efforts. Not only will this build good-will with your client but the other consultants may wish to return the favor when they have a need for a person in self publishing, or any of your other areas of expertise.

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Work At Home As A Computer Consultant

Overhead Is Minimal Part 2

You will also want to look long and hard at your areas of expertise. Do you have a work at home specialty or are you an across-the-board type of computer expert? Should you target a specific industry? Can you easily recommend the proper system to an accountant as you can for a trucking company?

Geography plays a major part in identifying potential clientele. If your specialty market is scattered all over the country, you'll want to advertise on a wide-scale. If you are the across-the-board expert, you can target a specific location. Keep in mind, the closer to home you're working or if you work at home, the less of your capital will be eaten up with travel expenses.

It is very important to establish on-going relationships with your clientele. Many companies pay their consultant with good a retainer good computer training for a few hours per month in order to have a standing opportunity to ask questions or upgrade programming. This is often a less expensive option for your clients than hiring a full-time staff person. You will need to let your clients know how you can help them in their day-to-day operations and set up a flexible enough schedule so that you will be able to work within their parameters. Working on this basis with a number of companies will guarantee you some regular income and cut back on marketing expenses.

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Work At Home As A Computer Consultant

Overhead Is Minimal

The only inventory you need is what's stored away in your brain: education and on-hands experience are your greatest assets. Like most computer experts, you probably already own your own PC and that's the only equipment necessary for a work at home start-up. The more involved systems work will come on-site as you design and install your client's more sophisticated hardware and software. The lion's share of your start-up expenses will be advertising and marketing your services.

Because your work will be exclusively on-site at your corporate customer's locations, it will not be necessary, especially in the beginning, to have an outside office. Not only will your costs be kept at a minimum by working from your home, but you can deduct work at home office expenses off your taxes for the percentage of your home you convert into office space, but be sure to use that area of your home exclusively for your work.

When you begin your work at home marketing efforts, do your homework and find out the type of customer who is truly in need of your services. Most undoubtedly, you will want to target mid-sized corporations. The big boys probably have permanent on-site computer experts and the little guys probably can't afford you. Make your marketing dollar as effective as possible by doing some legwork before you begin.

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Computer Technology

Become A Computer Consultant Part 2

Making Cents

Work at home computer consultants serve two basic functions:

Selecting the appropriate computer system, including hardware, software,networks and peripherals. This is a one-time project and vital to the success of the automation process. Most business people are afraid of spending thousands of dollars for an inadequate or incomplete system. A work at home consultant who has adequate computer training maps out the strategy for the appropriate system and the most effective and efficient software.

Integrating the computer into day-to-day operations. A consultant may be used on a on-going basis as upgrades in software occur or then network needs to be expanded.

A computer should make a business so much more efficient and productive that it pays for itself. Computer consultants not only help businesses realize this potential but a computer consultant with computer training will have the expertise and should make the process much less stressful and the transition processes more comfortable and easier to accept.

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Computer Technology

Become A Computer Consultant

A Computer on Every Desk?

With the advent of PCS, computer systems are now accessible to small and mid-sized companies. Very few businesses, no matter how small, can not afford to go without computer training and ignore the growing demand for instant information and finger-tip response to their clientele. Computerization with is a standard tool of competition and, if used correctly, should rapidly pay for itself in a reduction of man hours and an increase in efficiency.

Most people that work at home have to computerize in order to "keep up with the Jones" but many small and mid-sized businesses haven't the slightest idea which of the myriad of available hardware and software or computer training makes the most sense in terms of their own business. And ...this creates a natural marketplace for the computer consultant. The demand for these services is growing by leaps and bounds.

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Computer Technology

COMPUTING THE POSSIBILITIES

As you can see, with a computer or word processor, you can open up a whole new world of work at home business opportunities. If you are one of the few business people who are still operating without one, you really should look into making that big purchase. While the initial capital outlay may seem high, a little ingenuity is all it takes to make the computer pay for itself.

How To Get Rich Giving Away Something Free

The best of all worlds is to have a product you can give away free and still make money. That world exists. The product need not be expensive or elaborate. It can be something simple - a sticker with a happy face, a pen with a logo, or some other intriguing item or even computer technology or program.

This marketing approach is excellent because you can give the product away, charging the recipients only a nominal fee for postage and handling. If you price your shipping fees correctly, you can make thousands of dollars a month.

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Make Money With A Personal Computer

TYPING SERVICE - Part 2

Your main concern in this self publishing business is finding customers who need typing done. Here are some customer suggestions and tips on how to get in touch with them:

Writers: There are literally thousands of people in this country who enjoy writing either for a hobby or as a source of extra income. By running an ad in one of the many writers magazines (such as Writers Digest or The Writer) you will get responses from writers all across the country who want their manuscripts typed.

Professionals: Small businesses often cannot afford the luxury of a secretary. Larger businesses sometimes have large projects to type but do not wish to hire someone extra. In either case an outside typist with computer training can be a valuable service.

Students: Many high school and college students don't have the time to type their own papers even if they do have the ability to. Especially during mid-terms or finals, a typing service can really make money at a school. Post flyers in every classroom and every bulletin board you can find.

The only requirement you need to stick to in this business besides computer training is accuracy. No matter who you are typing for, they will stand for less than 100 percent perfect documents. Always check, double check, then triple check your work before you send it to your clients.

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Computer Technology

Make Money With A Personal Computer

TYPING SERVICE

When you begin to use your computer, you will quickly see the advantages you have over a standard typewriter. With some computer Training You can easily check your spelling and grammar, set your margins and type face as you wish, and make universal changes throughout the document without retyping the entire thing.

Because of these extensive features, your computer saves you time and effort when typing documents, and you can pass those savings on to your customers. With your computer, you can easily operate a self publishing business input a document, proofread it, give a draft copy to the customer for approval, make changes, then print a final version--all in less time than it would take a standard typist to type a single copy.

This is one of the easiest work at home businesses to run once you master your word processor because all you need to know is how to type, no other talents are required. If you have an internet connection for your computer, you can even send documents across the country or around the world just as easily as you can deliver them across the street.

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Setting Up A Word Processing Business In Your Home

Your place of business should be well planned and professional looking. Clients for your self publishing services who are surrounded by children in your living room sometimes feel they can get cheaper rates from a housewife situation.

You do not get paid for long conservation with clients, so keep them as straightforward and free from distractions as possible. As mentioned above, the best solution is to have a dedicated room with an outside entrance for clients.

Professional writers who work at home not only have separate working areas, but do not allow interruptions during certain hours, when they are "at work." It is best to have someone look after little children during normal business hours, so you can concentrate on the business.

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Computer Technology

Setting Up A Word Processing Business In Your Home

As your self publishing business grows, you can increase your capability by adding another terminal (monitor and keyboard), that can be connected to your computer's "brain" and/or the same printer.

Be sure to get compatible equipment, so programs you have will work on both, and the machines don't " argue."

When you have the equipment and have the computer training learned to operate it, you are ready to advertise and contact prospective clients.

A good starting place is to send a letter (your service!) or a brochure to each member of the Chamber of Commerce and other businesses in the phone book.

Use quality business cards and letterhead (your image is theirs) to help convey the impression of your quality work.

If you are near a college, place ads where students will see theme (for theme papers).

Take part in local charity auctions, for example, by offering a free (or discounted) word processing service.

Don't forget to send brochures to lawyers and local stationery stores (they might recommend you). It would be especially helpful to become a member of the Chamber of Commerce and to be "visible" in community activities.

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Computer Technology

Setting Up A Word Processing Business In Your Home

One thing that scares many of us about computers is "all that programming." A computer operator is NOT a programmer -- or an engineer. You don't have to speak Chinese (or even use chopsticks) to enjoy Chinese food, and you don't have to know programming to use a computer! A little computer training will go a long way in helping you.

If you typing needs help, get a typing program and brush up -- you will learn 3 or 4 times as fast as the "old fashioned" way.

It is not unusual to learn to type on a computer -- skills can be mastered amazingly fast because they are taught by more than one method (practice, on-the-spot tests and games).

There are programs for almost everything: taxes, forms, games, bookkeeping, wills -- even crossword puzzle generation. Visit out Blog and learn more about computers, programs and Work At Home opportunities.

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Computer Technology

Word Processing

Once you have acquired and learned to operate your PC, the services you offer will be bound only by the equipment limitations and programs you have.

For example, if your word processor includes mailing lists (most do), you can easily compile and print mailing lists or gummed labels at your leisure.

If not, there are plenty of good mail list programs available,many at no cost (public domain) or low cost (shareware).

When you join a user's Blog, you will get more information on the availability of mailing lists and catalogs for these types of programs.

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Investing In A Computer

You will need an IBM compatible system, with a hard disk with at least 20 Gigs also the bigger the RAM the better. If you can afford it, 4 gigabytes is recommended. Some basic computer training will explain all this but he hard disk will allow you to store several major programs in your computer and not have to load your word processing system each time you turn on the computer.

Most major newspapers have advertisement sections for COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE. But the reason computers are being sold usually because they are outdated, not because they are worn out.

Companies and individuals that operate a computer for a year or so frequently discover how much more they could accomplish with a new model, so they sell the "old one" -- which may be just what you need!

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Self Publishing - Home Based Business

Accuracy and neatness are critical in a typing/word processing service. There should be no discernible strikeovers or erasures, and every page must adhere to the prescribed format.

Accuracy can be a serious problem with a typewriter because you can see only a few (if any) words before they are printed on paper.

If you miss something, the whole page may have to be re-typed. Even a simple word processing program will allow you to correct mistakes at any time. There are also client changes and "revisions" -- those things they never think of until they see your "finished" version!

With some computer training and your word processor, you simply enter the changes on the screen, re-save the new version over the old, and PRESTO, the document is revised. You can print it then, or whenever you choose.

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Computer Training

The best advice you will get about your first computer is to JOIN A USER'S CLUB! Search Google for the best choices. Some people join before they get a computer -- so they can take advantage of advice they might receive from other members.

In most user clubs you will find "experts galore" who will be happy to advise and Computer Training and assist you in every way.

You will learn which programs are considered best-- and why: the pro's and con's of different kinds and brands of equipment, as well as where many of the members buy their supplies. Again Google will help you find what you are looking for.

Most user clubs have instruction classes or meetings for beginners, for specialist, and for groups with certain interests -- word processing being one of the major interests.

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Computer Training

If you give your client a disk with his final draft, he can forward that to a publisher who will run THE SAME DISK on his computer to typeset the entire manuscript. Or, the disk can be run by a Desktop printer to produce a hard copy, complete with photographs.

And, that's not all: with an added device - a MODEM costing $100 or DSL, or a Broadband connection to the internet, you can send the contents of that disk over the internet to the publisher in just a few seconds! You can learn all of this with a little computer training.

Needless to say, if you used a non-standard system or program , your options would be severely limited. The effort to learn a standard or non-standard program is about the same, so don't waste your time learning something that is not considered industry standard and spend time learning up to date technology!

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Computer Training

If you use a (cheaper and) smaller, lesser known word processing program, it won't do some things that "standard" programs do.

For example, the major programs have 100,000 word spell correctors, while some of the smaller ones have 40,000 or so. A search on Google will help you sort this out.

When your prospective client asks what computer you use, he/she will recognize IBM compatible as the current word standard; when you tell them you use Microsoft Word or Word-Perfect, they will know you have the "very latest" and can do their work professionally.

Most computer programs also have version numbers, which indicate how new or old that particular program is. Once you have a word processing program, however, updates are fairly inexpensive. With a standard, professional word processing program, you can not only prepare final documents, you can prepare manuscripts for publication.

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Computer Training

Many professionals never use more than just some of the average operations a word processing program can do. It is like learning to ride a motorcycle or cook a gourmet meal -- how "impossible" these seem to those who have not had any computer training and don't know how to really use the program.

But, of course, you don't start with a powerful motorcycle or pheasant under glass -- you start on a two-wheeler bike with training wheels or Kraft dinner, both of which may take a little practice. And, you can learn them both, one step at a time!

The reason your computer must be IBM compatible is twofold:

First, your program should be standard so you can produce the standard products,

Second, because the things you prepare and "save" on disk can be processed by other computers.

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Computer Training

For those who might be "petrified" of the word "computer," let us just say that it should take an ordinary high school graduate no more than one week of computer training to learn to prepare this report on an IBM compatible computer with WordPerfect or Microsoft Word.

A good typist should be able to produce a professional looking business letter in a few hours. There are a lot of new terms, buttons, etc., but you only need a little computer training to learn a few of them to get by -- and learn more steps and techniques as you need to!

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Computer Training

Word processors normally earn from $1 to $3 per double spaced standard sized page or $10 to $20 per hour, depending on the location (part of the country, city size), job complexity, typing speed and local demand. If you search on Google, you can find sources for work.

Note that this business was conducted with typewriters a few years ago, but the most expensive typewriters cannot compare with even low priced word processors of today. With a word processor, and some computer training you type the data, check it on the screen, then file (save) it on a disk (forget about cassettes!).

Whenever you want to see (or edit) the text, you simply recall (load) it back onto the screen, review or revise it, and re- save the revised version back on the same disk. Or, press a couple of buttons and print it -- in a choice of print styles, margin settings and spacing.

At any time, a printed version (draft or final) can be obtained without affecting the stored version. If your margins are set at 1" and you suddenly realize they should be 1/2", you pull your hair out if you are typing.. But on a word processor, you simply press a button, re-set the margins ( a second or two) and the entire document can be repositioned in a flash and reprinted with the new settings by pressing another button. This is why computer training is so essential.

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Computer Training

Some Examples of Articles You Could Sell

Tired of reading through useless diet books? TRY THE SECRETS OF CONTROLLING YOUR WEIGHT. Just send $3 to...

Plumbers charge over $100 dollars to make a house call. BE YOUR OWN PLUMBER, a new informed book, costs only $5. To order, send to...

Since printing costs will be minimal (between 25 cents and $1 per report) most of the money you collect will go directly to profit. And, since these reports are easy to produce, you can use some of that income to write and print a new report and sell it the same way. See how easy it is to make the whole thing snowball with some Computer Training?

Here are some more subjects you can easily write brief reports and sell through the mail:

* How To Grow A Garden
* Selected Mexican Recipes
* Stop Smoking
* How To Paint Your House
* Mail-Order Marketing
* Making Your Own Patio Furniture
* Camping Made Easy
* Easy Baking Techniques

If some of this appeal to you, think of something else. Just remember, the idea must appeal to a wide arrange of customers or you will not sell enough products to defray your production costs.

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Computer Training

MAIL ORDER REPORTS

Fads and trends come and go, but one thing that will always sell is information. With your word processor, you have one of the best mediums for presenting information, and you can make a bundle doing just that.

Just walk through your local book store or library and notice how many self-help, diet and how-to books there are. This should give you a feel how hungry consumers are for this type of information. Once you've read through a few of these types of books, you should know enough about the subject to write a brief five to ten page report. With the computer, you can make the report look very professional through the use of page numbers, double columns, pull quotes in the middle of the pages, and a bold catch title.

When the paper is complete, it's time for you to begin the marketing procedure. Take out an ad in the classified section of your local newspaper. Word the advertisement so that customers will be enticed to send you a check to learn more about the subject. Here are a few examples.

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Computer Training

WORD PROCESSING RICHES

Using your word processor to make money is easy. In fact, it's easy as finding someone who needs a document created and selling your service to them. Once you've read through the following suggestions, you will have lots of great ideas on how to use your computer to make money.

NEWSLETTER WRITING

A successful company needs to keep their employees up to date on company activities (such as corporate buy outs, company recreational events, and policy changes) and trade news (such as new legislation affecting customers, competition news and manufacturer updates). The easiest and least expensive way to do all of this is through an employee newsletter.

The problem with this is most companies especially smaller ones, do not have the capital to hire a full-time writer. Many companies attempt to designate someone within the organization to write their newsletter, but this person is not a writer, in fact the one in charge of the newsletter is usually the secretary. Using nothing more than a typewriter, she tries to produce a nice- looking newsletter in a few minutes she has to spare between projects. Needless to say, the result is usually less than spectacular.

That's where you and your word processor come in. Using your computer, you can easily put together a newsletter that looks very professional--with columns, bold headlines, graphs and even pictures. Bring a sample newsletter into a business and have the manager compare it to his current newsletter (if he has one at all). Then tell him that by subscribing to your newsletter service, productivity and profit will rise for two reasons. First, because he will not be paying someone from inside the company to write the newsletter. Second, his employees will work more efficiently because they will be better informed.

Before you know it, you will have 10 to 15 companies paying you to write their newsletter, and will probably be just about all you can handle. Since each one will be paying you about $300 a month for the service, you will need to make the decision whether to continue to expand your service and hire more help, or simply relax and let the money keep rolling in.

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Computer Training

The Sure Fire Way To Make Money With A Personal Computer

Edward Bulwer-Lytton stated "The pen is mightier than the sword." These days, not may people use the pen to write with. More often they use typewriters or, even more frequently, computers and word processors. But make no mistake, the written word is still very powerful, and if you own a word processor and have had some type of Comptuer Training you are sitting on top of one of the most powerful money-making machines ever created.

Most people use their computer to do simple tasks, such as their taxes and never realize they can work at home and earn a substantial income. They may buy a word processor so their children can write term papers and get better grades in school. Very few people realize that their computers can allow them to make money online as well as fulfilling all of these other functions. If your computer is taking up desk space but not bringing you any extra income, it's time for you to put that machine to work for you.

Of course, the logical question is "How can my computer make money for me?" With a little Computer Training you will learn that computers are extremely versatile and can be programmed to do almost anything. Many different computer functions can be incorporated into a home-based business, but one of the easiest to master is the word processor. There are dozens of word processing programs on the market, and you should be able to master one in about five or six hours of practice. And,if you don't have a computer, don't worry. You can still cash in on this great business idea. Many computer companies simply make word processing machines which are like super typewriters, combining the functions of both typewriters and computers.

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Computer Training

81. Develop software for children

82. Perform real estate inspections

83. Do software translations

84. Produced a computer-controlled home security system

85. Automate conference registration

86. Create computer gifts

87. Enhance scientific products

88. Write software for use in the home

89. Manage a winery

90. Design and produce personal computer hardware or peripherals

91. Design, publish and distribute software

92. Provide information vending machines

93. Start a software writing cooperative

94. Develop small scale real estate partnerships

95. Do property management

96. Do mortgage loan brokerage

97. Perform non-judicial foreclosures

98. Develop mini-warehouse storage facilities

99. Sell instant signs

100. Start an advertising agency

101. Start a resume service.

102. Manage a talent agency

103. Operate a referral service

104. Operating a mailing list service

105. Operate a typesetting service

106. Offer a legal forms service for the general public

107. Publish your own newsletter or help others for a fee

108. Operate a voice mail service

109. Start your own local classified newspaper

110. Provide a collection letter service

111. Offer a custom diet plan service

112. Start your own local real estate newspaper

113. Start an apartment rental newspaper

114. Provide a payroll service

115. Trade stock by computer

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Computer Training

Do you know how a computer works? - Part 2

By today's standards, typewriters are a thing of the past. Almost all companies worldwide require that you know or have at least some knowledge of computers in order to fill a job position.

I'm sure from time to time, you've probably wondered how computers work. But, who has the time (or energy) to dig through endless piles of confusing, long-winded technical books and files to find out?

Being a "computer junkie", I'm frequently asked by friends and family how they might go about learning necessary computer skills.

Do you know what I tell them? I tell them about the NEW CD-ROM I just found called:

The Computer Learning Made Easy CD-ROM!

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Computer Training

Dear Friend,

Do you know how a computer works? Do you know what RAM and ROM mean?

Maybe you want to upgrade your system and you're spending the weekend trying to make it work.

Or perhaps, your system is acting strangely and you are pulling your hair out trying to figure out what to do.

Regardless of the reason, it's important to know how your computer works in order to do anything with it, especially in a technical manner.

Computers can open a new world full of knowledge for you to explore.

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Computer Training

Ways To Earn Money With Your Computer

Section 1

1. Provide computer-based office management services for attorneys
2. Do word processing
3. Do medical billing for doctors
4. Do automated telemarketing
5. Manage a church
6. Start a computer user's group
7. Learn to win at blackjack
8. Bet on horse races
9. Bet on pro football
10. Sell computers from your home
11. Provide medical information management
12. Broker information
13. Start a singles dating service
14. Provide astrological services
15. Offer an interactive electronic newsletter
16. Produce book indexes
17. Provide a computer-assisted booking service
18. Make stock market investment decisions
19. Do genealogical research
20. Manage a band
21. Manage a house or pet sitting service
22. Track precious gems
23. Sell information to collectors
24. Analyze real estate investments
25. Support a small law practice
26. Write a book
27. Market collectables
28. Do psychological counseling
29. Prepare income tax returns
30. Provide economic consulting
31. Solve real estate financing problems
32. Do data base research
33. Publish your own book
34. Design your own small business system
35. Crop management
36. Analyze farm expenses
37. Provide weekly printout of bowling league statistics
38. Make computer-generated portraits
39. Manage investment shelters
40. Manage construction costs

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Computer Training

How long will it be before it becomes obsolete?

Part 4

Should you care if your computer is considered out of date in a year's time? Not really. If you are happy with the computer you bought, and it still does what you want it to do, is that really a problem?

There is always going to be a better, faster, snazzier video recorder, car, cooker, and computer coming down the line. That's the nature of life. So don't let that fear of obsolescence prevent you from buying a computer today.

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How long will it be before it becomes obsolete?

Part 2

I have successfully kept an old computer of mine going by doing this, but it is not cheap and in some cases the result is not worth the bother. This is because upgrading a computer properly should be done with regard to the whole system. Rather like you wouldn't put a V12 engine into a Mini without upgrading the brakes (I hope!), so it is unwise to upgrade the processor without putting in more RAM and/or a faster video card.

If you do, you simply move the performance bottleneck in the computer from one place to another, which sort of defeats the object. Of course, upgrading a computer in this balanced way can become expensive, so take care to do the sums first. If the sums say it is more sensible to buy yourself a new computer give your existing one to the kids!

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Computer Training

Can You Avoid Obsolescence?

Well yes and no. Yes, because you will not experience obsolescence as long as you continue using the computer and the original software for your tasks. No, because eventually you will probably find that there is something new that is so compelling (e.g. voice activated computing) that you will want to upgrade to take the benefit.

You can certainly delay the process, though, by a little wise buying.

Performance of your older system can certainly be improved by adding more RAM, putting in a faster graphics card and upgrading the processor - and by doing in that order

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How long will it be before it becomes obsolete?

Part 2

The classic example is of someone who buys a new computer just to do word processing, and then decides that they really want to play all the snazzy new CD-ROM based games that are coming out. In this case, unless they initially bought wisely with the games element in mind, they are likely to find that their computer is expensive and difficult, if not impossible, to upgrade to cope with the new task. This is why it is essential that you buy a computer with at least one eye on the future.

You will never be able to buy a computer, which will cope with all the new software years down the line. You will almost certainly have to upgrade if you want to take advantage of new software 3 years from now, for instance. But if you still want to do the same job as you bought the computer for three years ago, with the same software, your computer will last and last.

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When Is The Right Time To Buy?

Wait or Buy? - Let's define the problem.

1.) If I buy this computer, how long will it be before it becomes obsolete?
2.) Can I avoid it?
3.) Should I care?

How long will it be before it becomes obsolete?

First things first. What do we mean by obsolete? Computer development is now moving so fast that an individual model of computer will come to the end of its sales life after about 6 months. It certainly doesn't mean that your new computer will stop working after a few months. Nor does it mean that you will have to buy a new one to run the newer software.

In fact what it normally indicates nowadays is that the processor brain will have been superseded by a newer version, and that the overall specification of the computer will have been improved.

In real terms this will have no effect on your machine at all. As long as you want to continue using your computer for its original purpose, it should give years of sterling service. Obsolescence only comes into play where you decide that you wish to change how you use your computer, and the new use requires a higher specification than you currently have.

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Computer Training

Money vs. Software Bundle-2

Make sure that your budget includes the essentials for your job. In most cases it is pointless buying a computer without a printer, so budget it in. Likewise cables, CD-RW and floppy disks.

Don't skimp on the RAM. If it is a choice between more RAM and a faster processor or CD-ROM, choose more RAM. It will benefit you in the long run.

Don't be tempted to buy cheaper software in order to save a bit of money. It's better to save elsewhere - honestly!

Don't be scared to ask about all the possible configuration options available. It may be that there is a combination that better suits your requirements than the obvious one.

Where possible, get everything you need from the one source. Don't be tempted the buy the main system from one place and then the add-ons from another. A computer is best configured and set up all in one place unless you're an expert!

Last but not least, budget in the cost of an extended on-site warranty, for at least three years if possible. This is your insurance policy for the future.

Gary Zeld
708-401-4901
Skype: garyzeld

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Computer Training

Money vs. Software Bundle

Don't be taken in by claims of the 'value' of a software bundle. How much is a bundle of software that you may never use, worth to you? In some cases the answer is not a lot, and sometimes that's exactly what the software is worth. Sometimes, though, the software included with the machine is all you need to get going and so is worth quite a lot indeed.

Your computer will most likely come with a package that includes a simple word processor, spreadsheet and database. Ask yourself "does the software let me achieve my main purpose for buying the computer?" If so, then it should obviously influence your buying decision. If the software is just a "fun" extra, you may do better to look around for a bundle that gives you more of what you will really use. It's up to you.

Gary Zeld
708-401-4901
Skype: garyzeld

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Computer Training

Money vs. Name

Part 3

There are a number of British companies who have good reputations even though they are not household brands, and there are also a number of Far Eastern and American companies who have established a reputation over the years for providing reliable equipment. Magazine awards, size of company turnover and the like will help to point the way. As will the readers pages of some of the more helpful computer magazines, or national newspapers.

The final point is to cover yourself with your own insurance strategy. Do not buy a computer without obtaining a long on-site guarantee. If your budget won't take it, then change your budget to include it. You may never need it, but that maintenance guarantee levels the playing field between brand names and no-names.

Gary Zeld
708-401-4901
Skype: garyzeld

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Computer Training

Money vs. Name

Part 2

Giant clone makers like eMachines also have their own reputation to maintain, and are able to sell at no-name prices simply because they are making vast quantities of the product. In fact, one of the reasons eMachines are so inexpensive, is because they don't advertise. They wouldn't consider themselves to be a "no-name" brand (even if you haven't heard of them!). I recommend you look into purchasing a eMachine.

If you are going to plump for a product you've never heard of before, it is almost always safer to buy it from a reputable source (such as a high street retailer or department store) than direct from the company itself. This is because the store itself has a reputation that it will be anxious to keep, and selling unreliable equipment is the last thing that they need.

If you buy direct from a very small manufacturer, which subsequently goes out of business, then you are left with no one to turn to if you need repairs or support. The first point, then, is to decide exactly who are no names, and who actually have a good and longstanding reputation even though you may not have heard of them before.

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Computer Training

Money vs. Name

Part 1

Ah, now this is one of the thorniest questions, which faces the computer purchaser today. Should I buy a well-known brand or a 'no-name' clone, which is cheaper and therefore gives me more for my money? Well this is not so difficult as it seems. It is no longer true to say that you can lose performance from buying a clone.

Most, if not all, clone computers now have specifications that match, or in a lot of cases exceed, that of the brand names. It is also true that some of the low-end computers sold by brand names are in fact manufactured by clone factories around the world.

However, it is also true that some of the top name computers from companies such as Compaq and IBM have a clearly superior build quality to the average computer.

They also often contain some unique technology such as Compaq's 'easy access' buttons that provide direct access to the computer's CD and fax capabilities without the need to run software.

What you also gain is the knowledge that the brand manufacturer has a reputation to keep up, and so will try and avoid adding in anything that could cause reliability or performance problems in general use.

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Computer Training

Modem Speed:

With a little Computer Training, you will learn that a modem will only run as fast as the modem it is talking to at the other end of the telephone. So if your Internet Service Provider only offers service at 33.6kbps, you won't get any benefit from a 56kbps modem. Also, if you only intend to use your modem for faxing, virtually any modem will do, as most fax machines only run at 9.6kbps. There are several other options you will have for speed, such as DSL, T3, or Broadband. These are all much faster than the fastest modem speed of 56kbps. I recommend Broadband

It is obviously up to you to weigh up the pros and cons of each specification against your budgetary constraints and make your choice of modems. Because there are so many different combinations it is almost impossible to list them all, so the best advice I can give in this Computer Training is to set out your minimum requirements and then treat every extra feature that comes within your budget as a bonus, rather than a must to have.

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Computer Training

What's My Budget?

Money vs. Specification

How much is a little extra speed worth to you? Unless you're going to work online full time on the computer, running your business and saving the world, it is highly unlikely that the slightly slower speed of a 2.4GHz processor versus a 2.9GHz is going to make that much difference to your life.

Memory:

If you have to make compromises to reach your budget, go for more memory before a faster processor. Make sure you can get some Computer Training. Extra RAM will help to avoid the drop in performance from thrashing and show up more clearly in actual use than the small performance increase from a faster processor.

CD-ROM Speed:

The speed of the CD-ROM only becomes important if you're going to be using multimedia a lot to work online and running software directly from the CD-ROM. But even here you can decide just how fast you need that CD-ROM drive to be. Slower equals cheaper (i.e. a 16x drive or 'sixteen times' drive is slower and cheaper than a 24x or 'twenty-four times' drive or 48x 'forty-eight times' drive).

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Computer Training

Applications Software

The key ingredient of any computer system is the application software. This is the software which converts our computer into the tool we want it to be, e.g. a typewriter.

Most mainstream application software packages for tasks such as word-processing are nowadays very similar, and quite often are included in the cost of the machine. We will get into some examples of different applications at a later time.

Once created, software is stored by the programmer on floppy disks or on a CD-ROM disk. Software on a floppy normally needs to be installed onto the hard disk before it is run. With software on CD-ROM, we can either install it the same way, run the software directly from the CD, or a combination of both. Cd-Rom is mostly used today. Very little software, if any, is sold on floppy disks.

With most multimedia CD-ROM software, critical parts of the program are copied to the hard disk, while the larger multimedia material is loaded into the computer memory from the CD only as and when needed to conserve hard disk space.

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Computer Training

Operating System

This is the software that makes the computer light up and get ready to accept our instructions. Every computer must have an operating system, and almost all use Microsoft's Windows XP and now Vista.

It is usually already installed on the computer's hard disk when you buy it. When you turn on the computer it starts up (or boots) by reading the operating system from the hard disk.

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Computer Training

TV Cards

Add a TV card into your computer and watch TV while you work! You can also store TV pictures and Teletext pages onto your hard disc to view or print later.

Digital Cameras

These great devices allow you to take photographs digitally, store them in the camera without any film and then load them to your computer. You can then save the pictures onto your hard disk, print them and include them in your own documents. Many people feel think that this amazing technology may eventually completely replace the standard film camera.

Computer Software

Turn the computer on without any software loaded and the screen will remain black. So what is software? In its most basic definition, software is the set of instructions, which tell the computer hardware what to do. Without software, no computer on earth can operate.

Software is made up of lots of instructions (often millions of them) which are created by a computer programmer, and which we then buy to make our computer do certain tasks.

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Computer Training

Data Back Up

As you fill up your hard disk you will accumulate an increasingly valuable store of information. Computers do occasionally go wrong, and if it is your hard disk that fails, your repairman will usually install a brand new one, with only the software that came when you bought your computer! Taking a back-up copy of your hard disk is therefore an extremely prudent thing to do.

If your hard disk mainly stores software loaded from CD, then backing up those few critical files that you may have created yourself onto floppy disk may be a feasible way to back up. If, however, you have stored a lot of your own work on the computer, a data back-up device is essential!

These are available as either big removable disks of about 100MB capacity like the 'Zip drive', as write-once CD drives, or as tape drives with capacities up to many Gigabytes.

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Computer Training

Add-ons

Also known as peripherals, these are the things that we can add on to the computer to accomplish additional tasks. These include:

Scanners

With a scanner we can copy photographs or other printed material and load it onto the computer so that we can manipulate it. Standard resolutions are 300dpi (dots per inch) and above. The two main types are hand scanners for odd jobs, and page scanners for more serious tasks. Page scanners are either fed like a fax machine, or at the top end, bed' like a photocopier.

Joysticks and Game Pads

These add-ons let us control games on our computer. The joystick acts instead of the keyboard to make it easier to fly the plane, or drive the car or whatever other fun tasks we want to do.

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Computer Training

Multifunction Printers

Multifunction printers can do more than just print; they can scan images, and some can send/receive faxes and produce document copies. Multifunction printers that have all of these capabilities are sometimes called All in One Printers. Most Multifunction printers are based on ink jet printing technology.

It is important to consider the scanning resolution of each machine, as it can vary between fax quality and high-resolution quality (the same as you'd achieve with a separate scanner).

Multifunction Printers are ideal for home offices that are short on space.

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B. Laser & LED

Laser printers are the main workhorse printer in the office world at the moment and print in a similar manner to photocopiers, using a toner cartridge. (LED printers produce virtually identical results with a slightly different technology). These types of printer print a whole page at a time and speeds are always measured in ppm (pages per minute). They are fast (i.e. from 4 to 10 pages per minute for top end home printers, up to 40ppm for expensive business ones). They are also high quality with resolutions up to 1440dpi and with powerful graphics and font capabilities built in. However, although they are coming down in price, they remain more expensive than ink-jets, especially the color models that are still expensive.

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Computer Training

Printers

These are the boxes that output the results of the work that we have done on the computer. They come in a variety of flavors: dot matrix, ink-jet and laser.

A. Ink-jet

Ink-jet printers are the most popular type of printer for the home computer. They are quiet and produce good quality black and white (and often color) text and graphics onto plain paper. They are available in a wide variety of print qualities and speeds. Quality is measured as dpi (dots per inch) [the more the better] with 300dpi being the minimum resolution up to 1440dpi or higher. Type styles are virtually unlimited and depend only on the software and fonts you are using on your computer.

Some of the latest color models have technology that can print images of the same quality as photographs with up to 16.7 million colors. Speeds are measured either in cps (characters per second) or in ppm (pages per minute). Although traditionally slower than laser printers, some of the top end ink-jets are now faster than low-end lasers.

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Computer Training

Speakers

Speakers play the sound generated by the sound card. Output power is measured in Watts per channel (W), just like for hi-fi. The quality of speakers can vary dramatically between low end and high-end computers. At one extreme, the speakers can be of a similar quality to a cheap transistor radio, at the other end they can be of real hi-fi quality.

Speakers with a separately powered subwoofer can give great 'big speaker' performance. Although screens with built-in speakers reduce clutter and wires, their quality is usually middle of the road at best. It's up to you whether you want to compromise performance for neatness, so make your choice accordingly.

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Computer Training

Monitor

Monitors for home computers are available in 17", 19" or 21" sizes with price increasing with size. Most entry-level computers come with 17" screens, whilst higher end models will use the larger sizes. Computer screens are all much higher resolution than a TV. A bigger screen will display a bigger picture, and combined with the right graphics card can also display more information on the screen at a time. Flat screen monitors are also very popular, yet expensive. You can search on Google for the Monitor you want.

The technical specifications relating to screens cover things like refresh rates (e.g. 75MHz, the bigger the better) and dot pitch (i.e. the size of dots, the smaller the better). Rather than get involved in working out different specifications, take a hard look at a demonstration screen. Is it flickering, or are the letters on screen fuzzy compared to a more expensive model? If so, it is likely to cause you problems later on if you have to spend a long time in front of it.

137. Computer Training
Recently, Computer Training is becoming more and more important. This is because so many of our activities now require the knowledge of the computer. We especially see this in the area of home based business. People all over the world who operate a home business require Computer Training.

Today's Lesson in Computer Training

Modem:

Most, but not all, home computers now come with a built-in modem. This attaches to your telephone socket and lets you connect to the Internet or other computers using your ordinary home or office telephone line. Modems come in a range of obscure types, with speeds measured in kbps. 56kbps is the standard as dial-up connections will soon be obsolete as more people switch to using Broadband Internet.

One of the advantages of buying a modem is that almost all of them come with software, which will let you send and receive fax messages over the phone line. In other words they turn your computer into a fax machine.

Having Computer Training has allowed people to earn a living with their own computers with their own home business. Some people are employed to work with government, multi-national firms, etc. Research on Google has shown that by the year 2025, about 85% of the world population will acquire a computer.

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Computer Training

Keyboard

Computer keyboards follow a standard format, with the basic "QWERTY" typewriter layout conveniently centered with 'function keys' above it, arrow keys to the right and then usually a calculator type pad on the far right.

Try out various keyboards as they often have very different feels-from a hard 'click' to a soft 'squidge'. A few computers even come with one of the new ergonomic keyboards as standard, which are designed to provide a safer and more comfortable position for those who do extensive amounts of typing.

Mouse

There are a few variations in the shape of the mouse, so you may want to check the one that comes as standard to see how comfortable it is to use.

139. Computer Training
Recently, Computer Training has really drawn the attention of millions of people. This is because virtually all of our activities now require the knowledge of the computer. We can see this in the area of home based business. People all over the world who operate a home business require Computer Training.

Today's Lesson in Computer Training

5. CD-ROM & DVD Drives:

All computers come with either a CD-ROM Drive (with entry level - mid range computers) or a DVD Drive (with newer, higher specified computers). A CD-ROM drive reads CD-ROM discs that look the same as home audio CDs but store computer programs and data. The capacity of one disk is about 650MB.

The drives are measured in terms of their speed of rotation (e.g. 32x = all computer with a CD - ROM drive (with the entry-level - in the remote computer) or DVD drive (with the update, the higher the designated computer). CD-ROM drive to read the CD-ROM discs look the same, the home audio CD, but the storage of computer programs and data capacity, is on a 650 Mb.

The driver perspective to measure their speed (such as 32 x = 32 times the normal speed of rotation of the audio CD). Once again, faster and better, faster rotation, faster data access, faster, it can provide to you.

DVD - ROM discs is the biggest thing, playing in several computer is the successor to CD - ROM discs. 1 DVD - ROM disk can accommodate about seven times more data than the standard CD (the upcoming 4.5 GB). This means that software companies can now add more video and animation to their educational and entertainment products. So you can play regular CDs and CD-ROMs in the DVD - ROM drive (though not the other way round).

In parallel to its use in computers, DVD - ROM discs have started as a new medium for watching high-quality feature films at home. Consumer DVD players, simply plug in to your TV for the very high quality, movie player. Computer and DVD - ROM drive, but also need to MPEG - 2 the ability to play DVD film titles. 32 times the speed of normal audio CD rotation). Again, the faster the better, the faster the rotation, the faster the data can be accessed, the faster it can be delivered to you.

DVD-ROM is the biggest thing to hit the computer in several and is the successor to CD-ROM discs. A DVD-ROM disk can hold around 7 times more data than a standard CD (i.e. it will hold 4.5GB). This means that software companies are now able to add more video and animation to their educational and entertainment products. So you can play normal CDs and CD-ROMs in a DVD-ROM drive (though not the other way round).

In parallel to its use in computers, DVD-ROM has been launched as a new high quality medium for watching feature films at home. Consumer DVD players simply plug in to your television to give very high quality movie playback. Computers with DVD-ROM drives however also need MPEG-2 capability in order to play DVD movie titles.

Having Computer Training has made many people a living and is still making a living for many others across the globe today.

140. Computer Training
In the world today, Computer Training is the first step for anybody wanting to do things with computer. From all works of life,there is no area where computer knowledge is not important, especially when trying to make quick decisions. No matter the form of business or the size, even a home based business, having enough Computer Training plays a great role from the beginning to the end of today's business world.

Today's Lesson in Computer Training

3. Hard Disk Drive (HDD or storage):

This is the filing cabinet where the computer stores stuff after it's finished with it, so that you can use it later. It is also where the programs are stored when you install them. Measured again in MB (megabytes) or GB (gigabytes).

One giga is about one thousand mega (so 4.3GB is 4300 mega). Again bigger is better. It is amazing how quickly you can fill up a hard disk, particularly if you install a lot of software or graphic images. The minimum size you should consider is 20GB. A top end system can include disks up to 120GB (or more)!

Looking around us today, without no reasonable doubts we agreed that the computer has really made huge changes in the way we live our lives. Many people have started their own home based business. Life is simpler and more flexible with the computer, quick decisions are made where necessary and above all,the whole world has been made a global village. All these were possible by our curious minds with the help of Computer Training.

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Today's Lesson in Computer Training

Memory (RAM)

RAM is the 'kitchen table' where the computer does all its work. A temporary storage area for the programs it uses, so more is better. Measured in MB or megabytes, 256MB is the minimum memory you should consider.

Many home computers now come with 2 Gigabytes as standard. The more RAM you have, the faster things will tend to run on the modern computer, although for this Computer Training lesson that is a bit of a simplification. I recommend at least 2 GIGs of RAM.

The amount of RAM is important if you are going to be doing lots of graphic work, because big drawings or illustrations need a big 'kitchen table' to work on. When a program starts running, a part of it is loaded from the hard disk into memory.

As additional parts are used (or other programs are started) they are also loaded into memory. A computer with a smaller amount of memory might run a single particular program just fine.

However, when we are running more than one thing at a time, without enough RAM, the computer may run a lot slower than we want, unbearably so in some cases.

I hope you find these Computer Training lessons worthwhile. Please come again and leave me a post.

Gary Zeld
708-401-4901
Skype: garyzeld

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Computer Training Basics

Do I understand the basics?

A computer system is not, in general, made up of just one item. It consists of a number of distinct parts, the computer hardware, the printer, add-ons and software.

Strictly speaking, a printer is also a piece of hardware, but for the purposes of this Comptuer Training guide we will treat them separately.

Hardware

The computer hardware is made up of the 'hard' pieces, which work together as a whole. This includes the actual computer system unit, the keyboard and mouse that are used to interact with the computer, the screen and the speakers, which play the sound. Nowadays some computers have the screen and system unit all in one, while others have speakers built into the monitor but the principal components remain the same.

System Unit

This is the main computer box in which the computer's important bits reside. This is either a 'desktop' unit which is a horizontal box usually placed under the screen, or a 'tower' system which is vertically oriented and either sits next to the screen on the desk or placed on the floor.

There are eight important items inside a computer's system unit:

1. Processor (CPU):

This is the brain of the computer. Its speed is measured in terms of GHz or gig-hertz. The higher the speed, the faster the computer can complete its work. E.g. 2.4GHz is the equivalent of telling us the size of the car engine. A bigger number is faster.

We need to know whether our car is capable of cruising smoothly on the autobahn at 120mph or is better suited to a little trip to the local shops. Pentium® is the name of the most popular make of processor from Intel. A 2.0GHz processor is today considered to be entry level, 3.5GHz plus is considered to top end. Also, you may want to consider using a HyperThread processor. (HT)

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Computer Training

Do I understand the basics?

A personal computer system is not, in general, made up of just one item. It consists of a number of distinct parts, the computer hardware, the printer, add-ons and software.

Strictly speaking, a printer is also a piece of hardware, but for the purposes of this Computer Training we will treat them separately.

Hardware

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Buying A Computer for a Beginner

Introduction - Computer Training Guide

Don't be intimidated by the technology and you may find that it opens up new areas of creativity that you never thought possible in music, art and writing.

The purpose of these pages is to give you enough Computer Training to make a sensible decision as to which computer to buy, without having to know the technology inside out.

Here are four questions to you should answer before buying a computer:

1: Do I understand enough about the basics of a computer to make a sensible decision?
2: What do I want to do with it?
3: How much money do I have to spend?
4: When is the right time to buy?

Do I understand Basic Computer Training?

There are some basic things that it is important to know in order to make an educated choice. Luckily there are not many and most relate to speed or size.

In general a faster speed means that your computer will be able to do tasks quicker; a larger size means that your computer will be able to perform more tasks or store more information.

Examples are speed of processor, speed of CD-ROM, speed of graphics, size of RAM, size of hard disk storage etc.

What do I want to do with it?

It is important to think about what you want to use the computer for. This is because different tasks need different specifications, and the better we define what the job we want to do, the more likely we are to choose the right Computer Training and model for our needs.

Be careful though. Many is the time that a computer bought for one task has ended up doing another, completely different one, as well. Buy as big a computer you can afford. Especially RAM. Try and have at least 2 GIGs.

You may just want to do a bit of word-processing with it, but will your son or daughter want to use the latest multimedia encyclopedia on it some time soon?

What is my budget?

This factor, of course, will control whatever decision you have to make. What I mean here is that your budget should be realistically balanced with your expectations of what the computer will do. Later on we'll see how to juggle the choice of components around to get the best value for money within a given budget.

Also remember that your budget should include things that are not included in the computer's basic price. Many people forget that a computer they bought to be used as a word-processor is all but useless without a printer, which in most cases is priced separately.

With computer technology and Computer Training changing so rapidly, it may be tempting to wait a little longer for the next 'big' development. The truth is that computers will never stop developing, so it doesn't make sense to procrastinate. Later on we'll see why.

Finally…

Keep in mind the criteria you normally use when making any major purchase. Once you've found something that fits your needs and budget, check that you feel comfortable with the build quality, with the manufacturer and with all the other 'touchy feely' aspects of the system. And make sure to receive Computer Training so you will not get stuck.

You will be be spending quite a lot of time together with your computer in the future.

Gary Zeld
708-401-4901
Skype: garyzeld

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2. Tips for Business Success in Today's Tough Market Place

By Storm Castle

Does your company do business to business prospecting? Have you ever considered using an outbound telemarketing company? If you are wondering if your business will be able to endure the current economic troubles, this article is exactly what you need to read. There are six tips that can help your business find success even in a bad economy.

The following six tips are ways your company can not only survive, but thrive during tough economic times. Increasing your marketing budget, using the power of leverage, focusing your efforts where they will be most effective, properly training your employees, providing excellent customer service and keeping a positive attitude are all ways to keep your business profitable in difficult economic times.

The first way for increasing profits during a recession may sound backwards, but increasing the amount of money you spend on marketing your business instead of reducing it is one thing that can help your business make a profit during a recession. Countless businesses make the mistake of considering their marketing an expense instead of an investment and wind up destroying their businesses by cutting back in this area.

The second tip is to use the power of leverage by hiring a business to business prospecting company to do outbound telemarketing for your business. This helps your team use their time more wisely.

The next tip is to focus your efforts where they will be most effective, which is spending time closing sales. When the telemarketing programs do their job effectively your team can spend the majority of their time making sales which means increased profits for you.

The fourth tip involves properly training your employees to work with the highly qualified leads they receive from these lead generation companies. Proper training will help them make the most of these leads and sales will go through the roof regardless of what is happening in the economy.

The fifth tip for business success in tough economic times is to provide excellent customer service. Getting repeat business is much more cost effective and profitable than having to constantly prospect for new business so it is vital to keep your current customers happy.

The sixth and final tip for business success in tough economic times is keeping a positive attitude. People have a tendency to create the exact amount of success they believe they will and your positive attitude will be reflected in your employees' attitudes and achievements as well as your own.

Implementing the six ways listed above can help your business to increase profits during a recession. Business to business prospecting is one area to concentrate your marketing efforts in since this will make four of the six ways happen. Then all you have to worry about are the last two ways including treating your clients to outstanding service and maintaining an optimistic outlook.

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4. Secret Exposed: How the Google Search Engine Really Works

By Henry Zeng

While we don't often think about - or even care - how the Google search engine works, it is very important for an online marketer who is using search engine optimization, or natural search marketing for their online business to understand the basic principles that drive Google.

There are three main parts to Google: Googlebot, The Indexer, and the Query Processor. Each of these three parts is crucial to online businesses, believe it or not. Let's take a deep look at each of these Google elements to see how they work.

Googlebot is the search engine spider that comes to your website and spiders your pages. It isn't an actual spider, of course.

It actually works more like a web browser by calling a server and requesting pages, and downloading them - just as you do when you open your browser, type in an URI, and then the web page loads.

Googlebot, however, is run by big number of computers and performs this task much faster than one user could on their home or work personal computer. And Googlebot doesn't know if a website exists until a URL is put into their Add URL form, or until they find a link point to that site on another web page.

When Googlebot comes to a page, they take all the links from that page, and put them in a queue for crawling, and repeat this process over and over again. Once Googlebot has found a link, and downloaded the page, it hands that page off to the Indexer.

The Indexer stores the pages in Google's Index Data base. The Index then sorts all of the pages in its data base, alphabetically, by looking at all of the keywords on the pages. The Indexer does not pay any attention to what Google calls stop words, such as is, on, or, why, how, etc. It just pays attention to more important keyword type words.

The Indexer, after Indexing pages, waits for the Google Query Processor to ask it for a list of documents. A keyword is given to the Query Processor, which in turn asks the Indexer for a list of stored websites contain that keyword.

The Indexer then supplies the Query processor with a list of the documents, and the Query processor presents the documents to the user who requested the keyphrase.

You see, each element is important to the others. It all starts with the Googlebot finding your web page link on another site, or by you going to Google and using the Add form to submit your site.

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5. Google Voice Application will soon arrive in iPhone and iPod Touch

By Haven Frbiz

GrandCentral Phone Service as a voice of the recycled products, Google introduced at the beginning of Google Voice Services, which provides integrated voice telephone service, including all the features of GrandCentral (useful for SOHOs).

In addition, Google will also provide a voice mail features automatic text copying, as well as send and receive text messages, Google voice communications will also be recorded with the Gmail integration implementation. Users can make free calls to any number in the United States.

Like Gizmodo, according to reports, Google Voice will soon appear in the form of application at the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application will include a dial-up, and it can be set aside (from Google Voice your number), and the iPhone will make its own bilateral linking.

It can also dial-up and cell phone, and contact list to work, while sending SMS. Google Voice also includes standard features such as phone logs, voice mail and so on.

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6. 4/10 Yahoo! News: Home Biz SEO

Yahoo! News Search Results for "work at home"

Get #1 Rankings On Google with 10-Step Laser-Targeted Search Engine Optimization Tutorial (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
April 10, 2009 at 3:01 am

Since 2006, Matthew Bredel has built a successful online, home based business that's growth has depended largely on page 1 Google rankings and other SEO organic traffic. The SEO Exciter Series outlines many of his personal strategies in getting top search engine rankings for some of today's most competitive search engine keywords.

7. 4/9 Yahoo! News: Technology and Telecommuting

Yahoo! News Search Results for "work at home"

For Businesses to Grow in a Fledgling Economy, Turn to Technology and Telecommuting, Says E-Geniuses (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
April 9, 2009 at 3:05 am

Leading L.A.-based computer repair service company E-Geniuses illustrates how businesses can utilize technology and telecommuting to not only survive the economic crisis but to grow in a down market.

New Google Alerts Third-Party Add-On Boosts Marketing Intelligence Access for Small Businesses, Busy Pros (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
April 9, 2009 at 3:01 am

Developed by Adam Green, 'Mr. Google Alerts', AlertRank makes it easier to track, sort, rank and analyze Google-indexed news, blog postings and social media alerts

8. Adelaide Small Business Need SEO

By Dr S Ausman

There are no secrets on how to rank high with the major search engines because effective search engine optimizations are now immense. What is search engine optimization? Before we discuss that thing, you have to understand first how search engines work and a bit of know-how.

Search engines are into providing their users with the most relevant and up-to-date information to match the search term that was used. They are sophisticated pieces of technology which allow users to quickly find relevant websites by searching for a word or a phrase. Search engine results are useless to users if the information doesn't relate to the search term, or if the results are old. People expect the most up-to-date and fresh information that is useful to them.

Updating your website everyday and adding some materials will help you get noticed by the search engines. So, if you are going to sell any type of product or service online, you have to optimize your website for the search engines, in order to boost traffic and sales. It is because over 90% of your business will likely come directly from search engine results. And for that reason, it is absolutely important to optimize your site for search engines for you to have the greatest deals in the entire world.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process by which webmasters or online business owners utilize strategic copy to augment their website's status. It is certain that the internet has grown so fast over the years and the competition for the best search engine position has created an enormous market. Therefore, better understanding the fundamental elements of Search Engine Optimization is vital for an online business' success.

Making use of effective search engine optimization techniques will improve the page rank of your website. There are many tricks that can be used to increase page rank; the most effective method is to provide high quality content consistently. This seems like a simple concept but there are many websites that fails to provide content that visitors find interesting. Sites which provide content that are interesting, well-written and regularly updated create highly engaged visitors who are more likely to return to the website in the coming days. So, if you can set your website apart from those boring, lifeless sites then do it. You'll surely have a step closer to achieving high page rank through search engine optimization.

The next significant factor for an effective search engine optimization is to include keywords and phrases within your content. To make sure that you are properly targeting your market, you have to make sure that the keywords and phrases you have on your site are the keywords and phrase that your site is actually optimized for. The more keywords you use in your content, the more likely it is that online visitors will find your site when they do some research with those words. If you are unfailing with these techniques, then your overall search engine optimization will increase, boosting your page rank.

You should also have to develop a linking strategy as a part of your search engine optimization. Not only does this provide free advertising for your site, but it makes the impression that your site is imperative because of its affiliated links. For each link that you have pointing back to you, that is another chance for your potential customer to find you. The more inbound links that you have pointing to your site, the higher you will be ranked in the search engines.

Another is to develop a content stratagem. People who get to search from the internet are looking for information. The more information you provide for them and the more helpful it is, the more likely you will make the sale. Writing articles is the most effective way to build up content for your site. When writing articles to post on your site, make sure that you develop a clear means of arranging their content. You can do this by simply adding a new page to your site. This will allow room for extra articles to be added as you write them, and will allow you to build up an archive of articles which will maintain to draw online visitors. Make sure also that you have included your archived articles in a directory that is next to the root web of your site so that the search engines will catalog your online articles.

Always keep in mind that search engine optimization methods are important in developing your site's status. With that thing in mind, make sure that you write high-quality, keyword rich content and link your site to and from a deliberate family of other sites. These things will help improve your site's popularity and coerce increased business through your online business.

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9. 4/6 Yahoo! News: Mobile Internet

Yahoo! News Search Results for "work at home"

Peplink Launches Enterprise Grade 3G Load Balancing (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
April 6, 2009 at 7:53 am

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.----Peplink, the pioneer in Internet link balancing and failover solutions, today announces the release of its Balance 20W mobile load balancing router. Peplink's innovative new product gives Internet reliability to mobile and remote locations where it is not currently possible.

10. Get More Business with Autoresponders

By David Jessee

These days, most everyone is familiar with an autoresponder, although many don't know why they are beneficial to businesses. If you aren't familiar with autoresponders, you would probably find yourself amazed with them. An autoresponder can help your business by automatically emailing your clients and customers with a preset message that will help to increase your sales.

An autoresponder can help your list of clients grow, even send each one of them their own personalized email message. If you choose, you can also follow up each individual email with repeated emails, varying the content whenever you wish. These programs will also allow you to keep track of conversations, and send out broadcast email messages whenever you have news or new products to offer your clients.

As research in the past has shown, personalized email from autoresponders is a great way to boost your business. When you send a personalized email to one of your clients, the autoresponder by can address him or her by their name - which always makes a customer take notice. While you could do this yourself using traditional email, it could take you a few hours if you have a long list of customers.

Autoresponders make sending personalized email a snap. All you need to do is set up your email template, then select where you like the name to go. You can add everyone in your customer list to the autoresponder, which makes sending emails a snap. Once you have everything ready to go, all you need to do is send out the emails with one simple click. Best of all, you don't have to set it up again when you need to send out broadcast messages.

Although there are some people who will buy products after one or two emails, most people require about seven or eight emails before they will purchase anything. Autoresponders can really help you there, as they will do all of the emailing for you. You dont have to keep sending manual emails or anything like that. All you need to do is set up the email address, type in your preset message, and then feel free to send it as many times as you like.

Through the use of an autoresponder you can really boost your business. If you run an Internet marketing business, this tool will prove to be invaluable. You can spend less time sending messages and more time doing what you enjoy. If you've never tried an autoresponder before, you owe it yourself to check out everything they will do for you and your business. Online businesses can get a lot of emails on a daily basis, which is where the autoresponder will really start to shine and show you just how great of an asset it really is.

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11. Work at Home News Front

Verbal Communication Skills Lacking in Some Job Seekers; Media Consultants Offer Job Interview Preparation

Landing a new job is hard work. Just getting through the first interview is a challenge especially for a professional who's been laid off from a position he has held for years. Media consultant Suzanne Spurgeon says, "Interview skills get rusty if you don't use them.

The AA'S Â£6.2BN Summit Paper on Curbing Motoring

As world leaders gather today at the G20 summit to discuss the global financial crisis, the AA's own president, Edmund King, is reminding motorists that with rising motoring costs upon us, it has never been a better time to shed the pounds. Drivers could save over Â£6 billion per year by following the AA's money saving tips.

Anti-Phishing Working Group Leading Initiative to Stop Consumers From Falling Prey to Money Laundering Scams

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & LOS ALTOS, Calif.----The Anti-Phishing Working Group announced today a new public education initiative to deliver free counter-crime video instruction to consumers.

12. Adwords Management - 7 Keys to Success: Part 1

By George Kristopher

Most people advertising in Adwords today don't realize that they are losing tons of customers and leads all due to the fact that they don't know the 7 Key things they must do to set up a successful adwords campaign. If you follow these 7 key steps to setting up your adwords campaign, not only will your ad show up a lot higher in Google, but you'll also pay less per click than people advertising below you! Applying these 7 Crucial Steps will increase the amount of clicks you're getting per day and at the same time decrease the amount of money you're having to spend now!

Optimize Your Campaign For Google Are all of your keywords stuffed into one or just a few adgroups? Google hates it when campaigns are like this and determines that your campaign has 0 Relevancy! I know this strategy works, so for all of my clients I make their campaigns Super Relevant by taking each individual keyword and putting it in ad adgroup all on it's own! I know, it's days worth of work, but it reduces their click cost by an incredible amount! If you don't follow crucial step #1 you're going to be slapped! This means that Google will charge you insane amounts of money for your clicks and give your ads horrible placement.

Optimize your ads for Google The structure of your ads play a huge role in determining how much you pay per click. Just like in step #1 Google is obsessed with "Relevancy". Google's idea of a perfect ad actually has the keyword that was searched on show up twice in the ad; Once in the ad title, and once in the ad text. If Google see's that your ad displaying for the keyword, "injury attorney" actually has the keyword "injury attorney" appearing in your ad title and inyour ad text then Google is going to reward your ad for being perfectly relevant to the keyword that was searched on.

Google is going to reward you in two ways, 1) by charging you less per click and 2) by giving your ad a higher ad placement! But that's not all! Who searches on the keyword "injury attorney" will be more inclined to click on your ad because the actual keyword they searched on shows up twice in your ad! That means that by optimizing your ads you get more clicks, you spend less, AND you get higher ad placement! It's a win win situation!

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13. Privacy Policy - The SOHO Quest Blog
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14. SOHO Quest - New Contact Information
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15. Updated About for The SOHO Quest
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This blog publishes reviews, informative content, tips and more with regard to working in an small office-home office environment. Navigate this blog by using the side bar links. Follow highlighted links you see throughout posts to learn about the products and services being mentioned.

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16. Google Gets Voice
Google GrandCentral has grown all up is being relaunched as Google Voice. This service will continue in beta testing with many new features. Grand Central was a start up "one-number access" telephone service that was purchased by Google soon after its debut.

This service will be styled similar to the Skype telephony business model, in that some of the calls are free, and international long distance will be offered at attractive rates way below what normal phone charges would be. As an example, calls to Canada reportedly will be one cent per minute.

This will be a great service for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small office/home office workers, which now includes distance workers, telecommuters and digital nomads. Get in line and queue up for a free Google Voice number.

From The Blogosphere:

Google Voice Blog: Moving to Google Voice!

We are happy to announce that we have made a number of improvements to GrandCentral and are relaunching the service as Google Voice.

Google Voice Speaks of World Domination

Google Voice is a free service that offers "one number for life," so I recently came across your blog and have been reading along.

Get Ready For Google Voice

The folks over at Google are working on a new project called Google Voice. According to the Google Blog site the first beta testing will be for GrandCentral [...]

17. Depression Cooking Teaches
Check out Google Trends this morning, and you will see that Great Depression Cooking tops the charts. The television news anchors are starting to own up to the fact that we are in a depression, and not just your ordinary run of the mill recession.

Imports are down 24% and the economy in the US alone shrank over 6% in just one month. If you think there is any good news in this, it probably is only the fact we need to learn to individually become self reliant again. We can't sustain an economy where the only growth is in government.

If you have already lost your job, and are scratching your head as to what you will do when the unemployment insurance runs out, you may have figured out that it probably won't be a job like you had before. We are headed back to a more mercantile style society, where we each make and trade goods and services. Do you believe you can now start your own small office-home office based on new skills found learned and linked on the Internet?

If you are on your own SOHO quest, you may want to consider investing in and learning about working online. In many ways it is a quite separate and parallel economy. Almost unrelated to what is happening in the real world sector.

An alternative avocation is taking up the art of Depression Style Cooking.

18. SpiderWeb Will Rock the Web
Whoa Baby! This blog is getting whiskers. Anyone that has followed my path will know that I now have been heavy into educating myself about Internet marketing. Thus, the reason for no posts.

But I have been busy investigating. One of the schemes is a beta program known as The SpideWeb Marketing System. If you have seen it in passing, but did not consider it...keep looking. This had the potential to be the next big monetizing scheme for the web.

Many have tried to create a self-sustained or auto-pilot system. This supposedly started out with 12 streams of income, but now has 22. I have a gut feeling you have to work it like any other business.

It still is in beta, so don't hope for much. I had numerous conversation with the owners and management team of this system about creating an inner circle training program. Alas, everyone wants something for nothing. You can generate free leads, but then you have to know what to do with them.

Check out my blog on the subject, too, at "The SpiderWeb System Information and Reviews".

19. How to Produce 365 Videos in One Year
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

If you have been involved in the blogosphere for long, you know that many bloggers are gravitating towards video aka Video blogs, Vlogs, Vidcasts, or a Video Podcast.

This is a heads up on Mark Wielgus at 45n5.com. Mark is on top of online trends, and I am here to tell you that he researches, tests, and reports on things you will come to appreciate on a daily basis. All the information in this post was gleaned from 45n5. My belief is that Mark combines some marketing savvy with geekdom knowhow. He even writes simple, but useful utility programs and then gives them away for free on the blog. Here is a recent link to one he dubs "Keyword Scrubber".

45n5.com has turned into one of the few blogs I simply must check out on a daily basis. Now Mark is committed to deciphering Affiliate Marketing as a top priority. Another project he is combining with this effort is his personal mission to produce and post a video every day in 2008.

I think with 365 videos in the planning, his little experiment is one to watch for trends, plus the techniques, tips and tricks he is bound to uncover along the way. So, if you want to make 365 videos in one year, watch this guy in 2008 and I think you will learn something.

20. Prioritize Your Blogging for 2008
(Archived in: Social Media Marketing Social Media Optimization)

Welcome to the New Year! I have been spending the last week planning for 2008, which has included changes to my blogging style. If you follow my blogs, you know that I have decided to concentrate on Digital Nomads and The Rugged Notebooks Blog as my main focus for blogging, and with less frequent posting to this blog and The Sovereign Journey.

This is not for a lack or loss of interest, but merely a necessity of time management. Regardless, my blog niche revolves around the central theme of mobility and using technology to be independent. So, you can always check back here and/or catch my more frequent updates at the Rugged Notebooks or Digital Nomads sites. My plan this year is to move to private domains.

One thing I have been doing is writing more focused posts...themed, if you will, or a series of posts on a subject of interest. Recently, this has had a major slant towards telecom, and in particular new gadgets like MagicJack and VoIP telephoney solutions like Google GrandCentral.

I am finding that being more focused on a particular subject area makes it easier and more interesting to research, test, review, and write. I think my readers appreciate it a well and it is helping in the SERPS.

If you are still blogging, drop me a line and let me know how you are getting on. There seems to have been a drop in the number of friends I met online in 2007 that have continued to blog, or scaled back like I have. -Digital Nomad

21. Twelve Step Program for Email Addicts
(Archived in: Online Usability Reviews)

I saw this over at the BigString 2.0 website and thought it was good advice. BigString is an interesting concept in itself, which I will let you discover for yourself. These 12 items have been edited somewhat, so not to get dinged for duplicate content. There were some typos in the original text anyway. Enjoy.

1. Do not send email when you are angry. Wait until you calm down before you send that email. Feelings and thoughts can be difficult to interpret and easily misconstrued.

2. Never send a sarcastic email that could be taken out of context. Sarcasm and email do not mix. You can easily offend someone in an email without intent to do so.

3. Do not send email gossip. You never know where the email will end up. Just make a commitment to yourself not to participate in any gossip.

4. Never end significant relationships via email. Email is the equivalent of an electronic paper trail. Not good for any sour ending, whether business or personal.

5. If you don't want your boss or coworkers to see it, better not send that email from work.

6. Never put anything in writing that may come back to haunt you. A good overall policy. Not just for email.

7. Never, ever, hit â€˜Reply to Allâ€™ when you just want to send an email to one individual.

8. Donâ€™t email pictures of yourself to others. Especially, online acquaintances and complete strangers.

9. Donâ€™t make promises or commitments via email that you cannot or will not keep.

10. When you send attachments, be sure that you have selected the correct files and documents.

11. Good advice from New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, â€œNever write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.â€

12. Try BigString recallable email. If you do happen to make errors...the recallable, erasable, and non-forwardable features will help to correct such mistakes.

22. How to Build 10-Minute Affiliate Website Mashups
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

If you are searching for ways to be innovative with your online marketing, then here is another plug for many of the ideas featured at 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. No, this is not a paid post.

This is the good stuff, it's an addendum to the post on "30 Websites in 30 Days", and Mark calls this his YouTube-Ebay-Amazon Affiliate Website Mashup Thingy.

I have had a few email exchanges with Mark, and these are a few of his cautionary thoughts by way of how he has explained the ideas behind how it should work. Most people will not succeed with this mashup concept, or any other website scripting without the underlying concept and knowledge (or experience from learning) of how to build such a niche site.

Cranking out "out of the box" and rubber stamp solutions is what everybody else is doing. Doing the same thing that everyone else is doing online will bring the same results...which happens to be not making any money online. This also happens to mirror Einstein's theory of insanity, and he was no dummy. It's also making many people wealthy for some pretty worthless online information products.

So, if you use the script out of the box, most of your money will be made from luck or successful keyword research (aka) what words and topics you use to build these niche minisites in mass production.

Now is the time to learn. Take the time to consider doing it right. - Digital Nomad

23. A SOHO Reprise of Honest Riches System
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

A 25 Year Old Entrepreneur Making a Living Online from Home

You probably have read about or heard of The Rich Jerk and Chis X of Day Job Killer. If not you better stop and do a Google search right now. About 2 years ago, Holly Mann, a young mother started to successfully market directly against high profile Internet marketing gurus like these guys.

Living in a foreign country with no job and few resources, Holly decided she could research, design, and deliver a kinder and gentler approach to online marketing. Evidently she found her niche selling "How-To" information, because she has become successful in a short period of time (well, a couple of years).

"Honest Riches 2" is a 95 page proven guide. Holly shows all the techniques she has used to make money online through affiliate programs starting with no website and no start-up money, then on to free websites that can easily be setup with little or no experience, including free advertising that most people don't know or think about.

Yes, it seems possible to make money online and work from home just about anywhere (Holly lives in Thailand), but don't quit your day job just yet. You need a system and you need the right tools and knowledge to be successful. Changing your career is a life altering decision.

Before taking the leap, do plenty of due diligence and adequate research for information and resources about starting an online business and becoming an online entrepreneur. This e-book is geared for beginners, but is a valuable resource for all online marketers. No "get-rich-quick" schemes here....like any real business endeavor, it involves some effort and some work. But you will learn strategies and techniques to start making money right away.

To read more about Holly Mann techniques and other online marketers, visit Thank You Holly Mann.

24. John Chow Calls It Quits on Agloco
(Archive in: Weblogs and Business)

After many attempts at beating a dead horse, everyone involved in the Agloco fiasco can now uncross their fingers. It ain't gonna happen. Even John Chow has finally admitted defeat along with almost 30,000 signed up in his Agloco network.

Here is a partial screenshot of his last post on the subject, and here is a link to the post about the Agloco demise at TechCruch. Like John says...it shows that all those MBAs don't always muster up success, even the second time around. For posterity, watch the video on the Agloco viewbar attributes, and think about all the gurus that were on board for this.

25. How to Build 30 Websites in 30 Days
(Archive in Ecommerce SOHO Online Usability)

It may sound implausible, but it is not impossible. Follow this Digital Nomad and you know that just feeding the blogs is not going to cut it anymore. Blogging should be part of your online marketing network, but not a diversion.

I have been searching heavy for the folks that are making it online and not the wannabes. One such source is 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. This guy tells it straight. You have to hunt an peck to find the good stuff, and you will have to piece it together, but I think a good start is on this website.

Mark will show you how to find a niche, create a website in 10 minutes, and then shove it in the pipeline with some SEO tricks. Theoretically, there is no reason why you could not do this everyday for a month and then have 30 minisites up and running for affiliate programs in thirty days. That's if you want to have a website between you and the merchant.

I am finding that you maybe don't even need a website to market affiliate programs, but you do have to commit to spending some money for Google Adword campaigns. Better have a pad and pen ready.

There is always something to learn. Take the time to learn something new each day. - Digital Nomad

American Jobs: Going, Going...

Jane Birnbaum
2005
Reprinted from: AFLCIO.org

Corporations are escalating efforts to ship out jobs that pay well and build the middle class—and now they are aiming their axes at workers in the nation’s fast-growing white-collar sector.

The U.S. recession that began in March 2001 officially ended in November 2001, say the National Bureau of Economic Research and other analysts.

So why are so many workers still out of jobs?

“We’ve declared victory over the recession, and we’re still laying off a couple hundred thousand workers a month,” says Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.). “If it weren’t so painful for so many people who are out of work, it would be hilarious. But it isn’t.”

The U.S. economy has 3.2 million fewer jobs today than it did when President George W. Bush took office, including 2.5 million fewer manufacturing jobs. Bush appears headed for the dubious distinction of being the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over a decline in total employment during his term in office.

In the past three years, nearly one in five U.S. workers was laid off from the job, according to The Disposable Worker: Living in a Job-Loss Economy, a Rutgers University¡V University of Connecticut report released in late July. Among workers laid off from full-time work, roughly one-fourth were earning less than $40,000 annually, the report finds.

In July, a total of 15 million U.S. workers were either unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to job hunt, according to the Labor Department.

In contrast, within a year after the official end of the last recession in March 1991, the nation had embarked on six straight months of solid job growth.

This time, say economists, there are crucial differences: Companies are sending well-paying manufacturing and service jobs to countries with few, if any, protections for workers and the environment. And these jobs are probably not coming back.

“The movement of jobs and production overseas is handcuffing the recovery,” according to Mark Xandi, chief economist at Economy.com, as quoted in the New York Times.

“With NAFTA, the World Trade Organization and other trade deals of the last decade, American corporations are now tapping into a global supply of workers who can be trained to do everything from design to production, maintenance to marketing,” says Jeff Faux, economist and founding president of the Economic Policy Institute. “And while these workers become more productive, their pay doesn’t rise, because in many of these countries, to be a labor organizer means you risk winding up in a ditch with a bullet in your head.”

American jobs sent out of the country aren’t likely to return anytime soon. “As long as employers can take advantage of much lower labor costs in other countries, there’s no compelling reason to bring back many of these well-paying jobs,” says Ron Hira, an engineer and assistant professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology. “Policymakers seem to be at a loss as to what to do about this problem.”

Meanwhile, the Bush administration directs multimillion-dollar tax cuts to the wealthy while supporting trade laws that encourage offshore outsourcing. And even as Bush opposes unemployment insurance extensions for some 1 million Americans who have exhausted their benefits, his administration refuses to embrace job-creating programs that would repair the nation’s infrastructure and help balance devastated state budgets.

“The Bush administration doesn’t seem to care about jobs,” says Center for Economic and Policy Research co-founder Dean Baker. “To retain and create jobs, there have to be policy changes, and I don’t think this administration is willing to make them.”

Manufacturing: America’s Foundation Is Crumbling

“American taxpayers...do not want their tax dollars subsidizing the export of their jobs.”
—USWA President Leo Gerard

Manufacturing jobs traditionally have provided high wages and good benefits that allow workers to care for their families. But 2.5 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since President Bush took office in early 2001.

Multinational corporations are transferring jobs to countries where workers earn low wages and have few or no protections. And small U.S. businesses are laying off workers or shutting their doors because they can’t meet foreign competitors’ prices.

African American workers have been hit particularly hard. Because of manufacturing job losses, the unemployment rate among African Americans is rising twice as fast as it is for whites and faster than in any downturn since the mid-1970s. “The number of jobs and the types of jobs that have been lost has severely diminished the standing of many blacks in the middle class,” says William Lucy, president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and AFSCME secretary-treasurer.

Manufacturing job loss starts the downward spiral

The loss of good manufacturing jobs has ripped apart communities and permanently lowered living standards for families throughout the United States, including in Rockford, Ill., 70 miles from Chicago. The northern Illinois city is historically second only to Cleveland as a center for machine tooling, the making of tools used in machine manufacturing.

Machine tooling, which traditionally employs the most highly skilled manufacturing workers including members of the Machinists and UAW, is the bedrock of America’s manufacturing industry.

But the bedrock is crumbling. The Rockford area lost more than 20 percent of its manufacturing jobs—about 10,000—between May 2000 and 2003, according to MBG Information Services President and Economist Charles McMillion’s analysis of Department of Labor data.
General manufacturing jobs have been among those lost in Rockford, including jobs held by Steelworkers Local 745 members at the Goodyear tire plant. USWA members at Goodyear now number 750, down from 1,650 in 1999, before the corporation shipped the jobs to Asia and South America.

But most manufacturing jobs lost in Rockford have been in machine tooling. At Greenlee/Textron, which makes drill bits and tools for electrical contractors, about 180 Machinists now represented by IAM Local 1553 are employed today, down from about 900 in the late 1980s. The 112-year-old crown jewel of Rockford machine tooling—Ingersoll International—declared bankruptcy this spring and laid off 300 employees in Rockford and 70 in Michigan, leaving only skeleton crews of managers and a few contract workers.

“The lesson of Rockford,” says Faux, “is it disproves the free traders’ argument that America could afford to lose manufacturing jobs in areas like textiles and steel because we would ultimately triumph in global competition by making the things hardest to make. In fact, those things are machine tools—and we’re losing them.”

A loss of manufacturing jobs reverberates throughout the community—and ultimately the nation. When manufacturing factories aren’t being built, maintained or expanded, jobs disappear in areas such as construction.

“Our union has about 30 percent unemployment,” says Mark Bramble, business agent for Electrical Workers Local 364 in Rockford. “Guys burn through their unemployment, lose all their benefits, get divorced and then go where the grass looks greener or settle for working as a greeter at Wal-Mart.”

A question of national security

There’s a sense of betrayal in Rockford these days. “Free trade was sold to America with the line that it helps us export more goods,” says Eric Anderberg, who manages his family’s 37-year-old machine tool company, Dial Machines Inc. “But what’s happened is the exportation of our jobs and means of production so multinational corporations can exploit foreign labor and sell their goods back to us.”

Today Dial employs 40 workers, down from 75 in the late 1990s. It recently lost work to a lower-bidding Czech Republic manufacturer that nabbed a contract making parts for a supplier of General Electric Wind Energy Corp.

Anderberg and other Rockford employers worry that a Chinese government-owned machine tooling company, which already has bought two divisions of Ingersoll International, may now be poised to buy another—one containing intellectual property, including high-level research and design and military technology. “I cannot understand how our government can justify not only the debasement of our manufacturing industries but also our national security in a time of war,” he says.

The Rockford community and U.S. national security would get a boost from Buy America provisions House Armed Services Committee Chair Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) added to legislation authorizing the 2004 Pentagon budget.

Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.), who represents the Rockford area and helped write the bill, says, “The Pentagon wouldn’t care if everything it buys is made in China.” Joined by armsmakers such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the White House says the Buy America provisions are “burdensome, counterproductive and have the potential to degrade U.S. military capabilities.” But the administration does not mention jobs.

“American steelworkers are also American taxpayers, and they do not want their tax dollars subsidizing the export of their jobs,” says USWA President Leo Gerard.

White-Collar Jobs: America’s Growing Export

Ask anyone which sector of the U.S. economy comes to mind as the most likely to be shipped overseas, and chances are he or she will say manufacturing.

But though the United States lost 2.5 million manufacturing jobs since the Bush presidency beginning in 2001, U.S. corporations now are racing to outsource white-collar jobs—including work in computer sciences, engineering, entertainment, financial and medical services—to countries where workers earn far less.

Terry Antisdel was a Chicago-area engineering associate for Lucent Technologies Inc. and its predecessor AT&T for 35 years until his entire 42-member International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 81 was laid off in July. He figures his job will end up in India or China. “The words management used were a 'less-expensive offshore site,’ ” recalls Antisdel, who estimates Lucent will send a total of about 5,000 U.S. jobs offshore this year. “I feel let down,” he says. “Companies used to provide jobs for people, but now they’re just there to give money to executives, board members and shareholders.”

In late July, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), a Communications Workers of America affiliated group that helps high-tech workers win a voice at work, released a tape of a conference call in which IBM’s top human relations executives discussed transferring 3 million U.S. service jobs to countries such as China and India by 2015.

Testifying in June before a House Committee on Small Business investigating the globalization of white-collar jobs, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees President Paul Almeida said, “If these cost-saving jobs shifts are taken to their logical extreme, even American corporations should be wondering where their future consumers will be located and how they will buy the goods and services.”

A Forrester Research study predicts U.S. employers will move about 3.3 million white-collar service jobs and $136 billion in wages overseas in the next 15 years, up from $4 billion in 2000.

White-collar jobs going and gone

The jobs already are leaving. By the end of this year, General Electric will have sent a total of 20,000 aircraft and medical research and design jobs to India and China, according to Business Week. And the Accenture consulting firm, which incorporated in Bermuda after splitting from Enron accountant Arthur Andersen, plans to send 5,000 accounting and software jobs to the Philippines in 2004, the magazine says.

According to WashTech, Microsoft plans to eliminate at least 800 full-time call-center jobs near Dallas and shift the work to India and Canada in the next fiscal year. It would be the largest one-time firing of full-time Microsoft employees in the company’s history. WashTech says a Microsoft senior vice president recently urged company managers to “pick something to move offshore today,” though Microsoft publicly has repeated it will not lay off U.S. workers and send the jobs offshore.

While the Bush administration remains silent about offshore outsourcing, states such as New Jersey are considering corrective measures. New Jersey legislators acted after the state outsourced the electronic administration of welfare and food stamp benefits to a company that then sent the jobs to India. When New Jersey citizens called to ask about benefits, they were connected with Indian workers who gave Americanized names.

A bill authored by state Assembly member Linda Greenstein (D) would have required such offshore subcontractors to disclose to New Jersey residents their employers’ true names and locations. But even this common- sense measure had no chance in the face
of massive opposition launched by Indian and American corporate interests, such as Verizon.

“We got a copy of an e-mail Verizon sent managers in New Jersey, thanking them for sending 1,800 e-mails opposing the bill,” says Don Rice, CWA’s New Jersey legislative coordinator. Activists and legislators hope to bring the bill to a vote before the legislative session ends this year.

U.S. security at stake

Offshore outsourcing of white-collar work also raises security concerns. U.S. firms are sending mapping and other such work to India, Pakistan, China, the Philippines and other countries with lower labor costs, says John Palatiello, administrator of the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services.

“This practice raises issues regarding access to data about the location of¡Kcritical infrastructure by individuals in foreign countries who have not been through any degree of security clearance and where control of access to data simply does not exist.”

Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union address made clear the danger of access to data by unfriendly foreign operatives: “Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears....We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and public water facilities¡Ksurveillance maps of American cities and thorough descriptions of landmarks in America.”

Activists are demanding Congress review trade and tax policies that encourage white-collar offshore outsourcing. Without government intervention, warns Almeida, “short-sighted corporate policy focused on saving a few bucks in the short run will have an enormous deleterious impact on the entire U.S. economy.”

Low-Wage Jobs: Betray America’s Workers

Photo Credit: Ernie Englander/The New Press

Laid-off U.S. workers thrust into a hostile job market are discovering another ugly part of the American economy: low-wage work that pays too little to keep even a small family out of poverty.

Nearly a quarter of all U.S. workers labor in jobs that pay little but are essential to society. Sixty percent of these workers are female, and many are people of color. They care for nursing home patients and clean offices at night. They prepare food, answer call-center phones and care for our children.

These jobs generally pay less than the $8.85 hourly wage the U.S. government says it takes to keep a family of four out of poverty. Even so, many low-wage jobs offer only part-time hours, with few or no benefits. And workers in low-paying but essential jobs often are treated as disposable, quickly fired if they get sick or stay home with a sick child.

As more good jobs leave the country, the percentage of low-wage jobs keeps growing. By 2010, about 30 percent of working Americans won’t be making even poverty wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. A Labor Department list of the 10 occupations likely to show the largest job growth this decade is dominated by jobs that typically pay poorly—food preparation, customer service, office clerking, security and food service.

This world of low-wage jobs and the workers who do them is illuminated in The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 35 Million Americans, published on Labor Day by the New Press. “Traditionally, there was a promise in this country that if you worked hard, you could take care of your family,” explains author Beth Shulman, an attorney and former United Food and Commercial Workers vice president. “That promise has been broken¡Kand we have built our national prosperity on their backs.”

No job is inherently low wage

Workers in low-wage jobs frequently are labeled as lacking skills and in need of training to move into better-paying positions. But while education is a traditional route to higher pay, Shulman contends no job is inherently low wage.
“Take autoworkers, who had horrible jobs that became good ones because of unions and social legislation,” she says. “The same thing must happen with currently low-paying service- sector jobs. In Las Vegas, for example, the housekeeper represented by the Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees has decent wages and benefits thanks to unionization.”

Low-wage jobs tend to imprison the workers who perform them because of what Shulman calls a “piling on” of hardships. Workers in low-wage jobs are unlikely to have sick leave or health insurance or make enough money to afford reliable transportation or child day care. At the same time, they are likely to be in inflexible situations in which being late or missing work can result in a quick firing.

“It’s not just that you make less money in these jobs, but you have none of the basic things many of us take for granted, such as health insurance, time to care for a family member, adequate child care, some kind of retirement security, even a telephone,” Shulman says. “And this applies to one in four U.S. workers.”

Gap is growing between U.S. rich and poor

As low-wage work continues to replace jobs that pay well, the U.S. economy increasingly resembles that of a less-developed nation, with a wide gulf between rich and poor. Among all western industrialized nations, the United States has the greatest income and wage inequalities, with the best-paid 10 percent of workers making 16.6 times the amount made by the lowest-paid 10 percent, according to a 2003 analysis by the United Nations Development Program. “That’s the way we’ve been moving for some time now and continue to move,” says Heather Boushey, a Center for Economic and Policy Research economist.

To reverse this trend, the United States needs to change the rules of the game, according to Shulman. “For starters, we should immediately raise the minimum hourly wage to the poverty guideline for a family of four—$8.85 an hour versus the current $5.15 hourly federal minimum wage—and then have automatic increases so there’s not a big political battle every time it needs raising. Then, all Americans should have access to affordable health care. There are a variety of ways to do this, and we should just get it done.

“Finally, all American workers should be able to care for their children—to have access to affordable child care, and to stay with them when they’re sick or go to a PTA meeting without getting fired. The consequences for the children of today’s low-wage workers are enormous—they’re following their parents into this low-wage world.”

Companies in India celebrate
"loss of American jobs"

Mike Crane
December 2004
Reprinted from: Southern Party of Georgia website

In our previous article we reported how various companies in India were employed by the Republican National Committee and the Bush Re-election campaign (see: India claims big election victory and laughs at Americans).

One interesting comment that was documented in that article was:

As Vivek Paul, Wipro VC, said after the Presidential poll, “The elections are over and so is the rhetoric; it will be easier for American corporations to step out with their outsourcing plans.”

Well a little research has found some estimates from within India about what that meant. First and foremost, it means that India is celebrating the "loss of American jobs." Folks, that is the jobs of friends, family or perhaps even your own.

Specifically on November 4, with time zone changes, roughly a day after the polls close the following was published in the India Times:

The industry is quietly celebrating that outsourcing and loss of American jobs will not be the hot-button issues any more.

And that is why they believe that "it will be easier for American corporations to step out with their outsourcing plans." Does this mean that American companies put their plans on "hold" to minimize the impact on a close election?

But the folks in India gloat a little more:

Of the documented jobs that left the US for other countries in January through March 2004, 23,396 went to Mexico, 8,283 to China, 3,895 to India, 4,419 to other Asian countries, 5,511 to Latin American countries other than Mexico and 2,933 to other countries.

A brief look at these numbers show what they call a documented American job loss of 48,237 for the first quarter of 2004. On an annual basis this would be 192,968 American jobs. And they expect American companies to now - step out - with their outsourcing plans.

Some will say that 192,968 jobs is not very many. But as you will see in coming articles that is just what is called BPO and is not the whole picture.

Lets look at the effect of three policies that affect American jobs:

Outsourcing - In this article it has been shown that it is at least close to 200,00 jobs a year for the BPO segment and expected to increase
H1-B visa program - allows high tech foreigners to take American jobs here without being counted in immigration totals. Used by many companies to train personnel for their foreign outsourcing programs. There are roughly a million H1-B visas active today.
Legal immigration of about 1 million a year and illegal immigration of about 3 million a year resulting in lower American wages and increased social costs.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are paying the salaries of the elected and appointed officials who are doing this to you. Is this what you want to pay for? If so, why are you reading material on this web site?

If not, you are being ignored!

It should be obvious to all that this trend can not continue forever. Are there any signs that it is getting better:

A recent study of A T Kearney shows that nine out of 10 chief executives wanted to outsource to India. 25 % of the respondents wanted IT and auto component work to be given to India, 15 % favoured China and 13 % Mexico.

That should answer that question beyond a reasonable doubt. Interesting that 15% of the outsourcing chief executives favor Red China! Remember these are the folks that make the big campaign contributions that have so much influence on many of your elected officials. How will you feel when YOUR job is sent to Red China?

If you do not agree with these policies you are being ignored and your elected officials are representing special interests more than you! If you believe that this is a serious problem it is time to get involved now. The longer you wait, the harder it will be stop these destructive trends.

The BPO and your elected officials are doing offshore calculus, are you?

BPO biggies do offshore calculus

TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2004 02:13:09 PM]

India’s silicon valley is delighted to move out of the limelight. The industry is quietly celebrating that outsourcing and loss of American jobs will not be the hot-button issues any more.

BPO bigwigs are already computing the gains from mega-offshoring plans on hold waiting for US presidential race to be over.

Though most of the industry majors refuse to comment on who will safeguard their interests better, they feel that economic benefits of transfer of jobs to low cost destinations will now overshadow the political rhetoric against outsourcing in the run up to the US poll.

The US presidential election was fueling the protests against job losses due to transfer of jobs.

“American law will remain the same and the outsourcing will go up irrespective of who wins. Already, we see our clients getting ready for bigger offshoring plans,’’ says head of a leading Delhi-based BPO firm. Insiders also feel the American clients might be more open to talk about their outsourcing plans to low-cost destinations like India now.

Though Kerry’s tax proposals that seek to end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas could deter fence-sitter, analysts feel they are no more than short-term sentiment dampeners. After initially branding the shipping of jobs to countries like India and China as a threat to the US economy, Kerry has gone on record saying he can’t stop outsourcing.

Clearly, what is of greater concern is that a clear decision comes soon, irrespective of whether it favours Bush or Kerry. Though Bush is more popular, the $ 2.6 billion BPO industry is convinced that “it will soon be difficult to differentiate between Democrats and Republicans.

Obviously sector’s fate is closely tied up with the US elections, with US accounting for over 70 % of India’s IT exports. A recent study of A T Kearney shows that nine out of 10 chief executives wanted to outsource to India. 25 % of the respondents wanted IT and auto component work to be given to India, 15 % favoured China and 13 % Mexico.

Of the documented jobs that left the US for other countries in January through March 2004, 23,396 went to Mexico, 8,283 to China, 3,895 to India, 4,419 to other Asian countries, 5,511 to Latin American countries other than Mexico and 2,933 to other countries.

Costly Trade With China
Millions of U.S. jobs displaced

Robert E. Scott
October 9, 2007
Reprinted from: Economic Policy Institute

Contrary to the predictions of its supporters, China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has failed to reduce its trade surplus with the United States or increase overall U.S. employment. The rise in the U.S. trade deficit with China between 1997 and 2006 has displaced production that could have supported 2,166,000 U.S. jobs. Most of these jobs (1.8 million) have been lost since China entered the WTO in 2001. Between 1997 and 2001, growing trade deficits displaced an average of 101,000 jobs per year, or slightly more than the total employment in Manchester, New Hampshire. Since China entered the WTO in 2001, job losses increased to an average of 353,000 per year—more than the total employment in greater Akron, Ohio. Between 2001 and 2006, jobs were displaced in every state and the District of Columbia. Nearly three-quarters of the jobs displaced were in manufacturing industries. Simply put, the promised benefits of trade liberalization with China have been unfulfilled.

As a matter of policy, China tightly pegs its currency's value to that of the dollar at a rate that encourages a large bilateral surplus with the United States. Maintaining this peg required the purchase of about $200 billion in U.S. Treasury Bills and other securities in 2006 alone.¹ This intervention makes the yuan artificially cheap and provides an effective subsidy on Chinese exports; best estimates are that the rate of this effective subsidy is roughly 40%. China also engages in extensive suppression of labor rights; it has been estimated that wages in China would be 47% to 85% higher in the absence of labor repression. China has also been accused of massive direct subsidization of export production. Finally, it maintains strict, non-tariff barriers to imports. As a result, China's exports to the United States of $288 billion in 2006 were six times greater than U.S. exports to China, which were only $52 billion (Table 1). China's trade surplus was responsible for 42.6% of the United States' total, non-oil trade deficit. This is by far the United States' most imbalanced trading relationship. Unless and until China revalues (raises) the yuan and eliminates these other trade distortions, the U.S. trade deficit and job losses will continue to grow rapidly in the future.

Major findings of this study:

The 1.8 million jobs opportunities lost nationwide since 2001 are distributed among all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with the biggest losers, in numeric terms: California (-269,300), Texas (-136,900), New York (-105,900), Illinois (-79,900), Pennsylvania (-78,200), North Carolina (-77,200), Florida (-71,900), Ohio (-66,100), Georgia (-60,400), and Massachusetts (-59,300) (Table 2A).
The 10 hardest-hit states, as a share of total state employment, are: New Hampshire (-13,000, -2.1%), North Carolina (-77,200, -2.0%), California (-269,300, -1.8%), Massachusetts (-59,300, -1.8%), Rhode Island (-8,400, -1.8%), South Carolina (-29,200, -1.6%), Vermont (-4,900, -1.6%), Oregon (-25,700, -1.6%), Indiana (-45,200, -1.5%), and Georgia (-60,400, -1.5%) (Table 2B).

China's entry into the WTO was supposed to bring it into compliance with an enforceable, rules-based regime, which would require that it open its markets to imports from the United States and other nations. The United States also negotiated a series of special safeguard measures designed to limit the disruptive effects of surging Chinese imports on domestic producers. However, the core of the agreement failed to include any protections to maintain or improve labor or environmental standards. As a result, China's entry into the WTO has further tilted the international economic playing field against domestic workers and firms, and in favor of multinational companies (MNCs) from the United States and other countries, and state- and privately-owned exporters in China. This has increased the global "race to the bottom" in wages and environmental quality and caused the closing of thousands of U.S. factories, decimating employment in a wide range of communities, states, and entire regions of the United States.

False promises

Proponents of China's entry into the WTO frequently claimed that it would create jobs in the United States, increase U.S. exports, and improve the trade deficit with China. President Clinton claimed that the agreement allowing China into the WTO, which was negotiated during his administration, "creates a win-win result for both countries" (Clinton 2000, 9). He argued that exports to China "now support hundreds of thousands of American jobs" and that "these figures can grow substantially with the new access to the Chinese market the WTO agreement creates" (Clinton 2000, 10). Others in the White House, such as Kenneth Liberthal, the special advisor to the president and senior director for Asia affairs at the National Security Council, echoed Clinton's assessment:

Let's be clear as to why a trade deficit might decrease in the short term. China exports far more to the U.S. than it imports [from] the U.S….It will not grow as much as it would have grown without this agreement and over time clearly it will shrink with this agreement.²

Promises about jobs and exports misrepresented the real effects of trade on the U.S. economy: trade both creates and destroys jobs. Increases in U.S. exports tend to create jobs in the United States, but increases in imports tend to destroy jobs as imports displace goods that otherwise would have been made in the United States by domestic workers.

The impact of changes in trade on employment is estimated here by calculating the labor content of changes in the trade balance—the difference between exports and imports. Each $1 billion in computer exports to China from the United States supports American jobs. However, each $1 billion in computer imports from China displaces those American workers, who would have been employed making them in the United States. On balance, the net employment effect of trade flows depends on the growth in the trade deficit; not just exports. Another critically important promise made by the promoters of liberalized U.S.-China trade was that the United States would benefit because of increased exports to a large and growing consumer market in China. This market, in turn, was to be based on an expansion of the middle class that, it was claimed, would grow rapidly due to the wealth created in China by its entry into the WTO. However, the increase in U.S. exports to China has been overwhelmed by the growth of U.S. imports, as shown below.

Growing trade deficits and job losses

The U.S. trade deficit with China has increased from $50 billion in 1997 to $235 billion in 2006, an increase of $185 billion, as shown in Table 1. Between 1997 and 2001, prior to China's entry into the WTO, the deficit increased $9 billion per year on average. Between 2001 and 2006, after China entered the WTO, the deficit increased $30 billion per year on average.

While it is true that exports support jobs in the United States, it is equally true that imports displace them. The net effect of trade flows on employment must look at the trade balance. The employment impacts of growing trade deficits are estimated in this paper using an input-output model that estimates the direct and indirect labor requirements of producing output in a given domestic industry. The model includes 200 U.S. industries, 86 of which are in the manufacturing sector (see this paper's methodology appendix for further details).³

The model estimates the labor that would be required to produce a given volume of exports, and the labor that is displaced when a given volume of imports is substituted for domestic output.⁴ The job losses presented here represent an estimate of what sectoral employment levels would have been in the absence of growing trade deficits.⁵

U.S. exports to China in 1997 supported 138,000 jobs, but U.S. imports displaced production that would have supported 736,000 jobs, as shown in the bottom half of Table 1. Therefore, the $49 billion trade deficit in 1997 displaced 736,300 jobs in that year. Job displacement rose to 1,000,000 jobs in 2001 and 2,763,000 in 2006. Prior to China's entry into the WTO, an average of 101,000 jobs per year were displaced by growing trade deficits between 1997 and 2001. After 2001, an average of 353,000 jobs per year were lost.

Growth in trade deficits with China has reduced demand for goods produced in every region of the United States and has led to job displacement in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as shown in Table 2A and Figure A.⁶ More than 100,000 jobs were lost in California, Texas, and New York each. Jobs displaced due to growing deficits with China equaled or exceeded 2.0% of total employment in states such as North Carolina and New Hampshire, as shown in Table 2B. An alphabetical list of job losses by state is shown in Table 2C.

Figure A

Table 2c

Growing trade deficits with China have clearly reduced domestic employment in traded goods industries, especially in the manufacturing sector, which has been hard hit by plant closings and job losses. Workers displaced by trade from the manufacturing sector have been shown to have particular difficulty in securing comparable employment elsewhere in the economy. More than one-third of workers displaced from manufacturing drop out of the labor force (Kletzer 2001, 101, Table D2). Average wages of those who secured re-employment fell 11% to 13%. Trade-related job displacement pushes many workers out of good jobs in manufacturing and other trade-related industries, often into lower-paying industries and frequently out of the labor market.

Some economists have quibbled with job-loss numbers extrapolated from trade flows, based on the presumption that aggregate employment levels in the United States are set by a broad range of macroeconomic influences, not just by trade flows. There is a grain of truth to this—the trade balance is but one of many variables affecting aggregate job creation in the United States.

That said, the employment impacts of trade identified in this paper can be interpreted as the "all else equal" effect of trade on domestic employment. The Federal Reserve, for example, may decide to cut interest rates to make up for job loss stemming from deteriorating trade balances (or any other economic influence), leaving net employment unchanged. This, however, does not change the fact that trade deficits by themselves are a net drain on employment.

Administration officials and other economists have argued that the capital inflow that is the mirror-image of trade deficits supports jobs in the United States by keeping interest rates lower than they would be absent this inflow. During the late 1990s, for example, these capital inflows fought rising trade deficits to a draw in terms of aggregate employment effects, and, through much of the 2000s recovery, interest-sensitive industries (housing and construction, for example) have surely expanded more than they would have absent foreign capital inflows. While these claims may be correct from a simple accounting standpoint, they do not support assertions that trade flows are a useless indicator of job loss.

First, and most simply, it is just not true that foreign capital inflows always make up trade-induced employment losses one-for-one. In the 2001 recession and the jobless recovery following, growing trade deficits accompanied aggregate job loss, even as interest rates scraped historical bottoms. Clearly, low interest rates do not always translate into enough growth in investment and consumption in interest-sensitive sectors to always sterilize the impact of growing trade deficits.

Second, the job-loss numbers identified in this report are a good measure of just how unbalanced the U.S. economy has become due to rising trade deficits. Tradable goods industries have hemorrhaged jobs, while interest-sensitive, often non-tradable, industries have seen rapid growth. At that point in the future when trade deficits begin to close (and this will happen—it is only a question of when and how), the U.S. economy will need to return many of the jobs displaced by rising trade deficits out of non-tradable and into tradable industries. Moving millions of workers back and forth between sectors is no mean trick, and accomplishing it without a recession in between will be hard; trying to do it after another couple of years of deficit growth—and an even more lopsided U.S. economy—will be even harder.

In short, while aggregate employment in the United States may well not respond job-for-job with the numbers reported in this paper on trade deficits with China, these numbers provide insight into how much harder other macroeconomic influences have to work to eliminate the employment drag from these deficits, and they provide a good (and ominous) measure of how lopsided employment growth in the U.S. economy has become owing to the unbalanced U.S.-China trade relationship.

Conclusion

The growing U.S. trade deficit with China has displaced huge numbers of jobs in the United States, and been a prime contributor to the crisis in manufacturing employment over the past six years. The current U.S.-China trade relationship is bad for both countries. The United States is piling up foreign debt, losing export capacity, and facing a more fragile macroeconomic environment. Meanwhile, China has become dependent on the U.S. consumer market for employment generation, has suppressed the purchasing power of its own middle class with a weak currency, and, most importantly, has held hundreds of billions of hard-currency reserves in low-yielding, risky assets, instead of investing them in public goods that could benefit Chinese households. Its repression of labor rights has suppressed wages, thus subsidizing its exports and making them artificially cheap. This relationship needs a fundamental change: addressing the exchange rate policies and labor standards issues in the Chinese economy are important first steps.

April 2007

The author thanks Lauren Marra for her research assistance
and Josh Bivens and Ross Eisenbrey for comments.

This research was made possible by generous support
from the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

Methodology

This analysis utilizes an input-output model to estimate the relationships between changes in trade flows and production that could support domestic employment. The analysis covers trends in goods trade, which is dominated by manufactures. Services trade is not considered because of problems with the data, and because many of the services traded involve returns to capital and intellectual property that have little or no direct effect on employment. In addition, goods trade dominates the nation's international accounts.

This study uses the model developed in Rothstein and Scott (1997a and 1997b). This approach solves four problems that are prevalent in previous research on the employment effects of trade. Some studies look only at the effects of exports and ignore imports. Some studies include re-exports (transshipments)—goods produced outside the United States and shipped through this country to other nations—as U.S. exports. The trade data used in many studies is usually not adjusted for inflation. Finally, a single employment multiplier is often applied to all industries, despite differences in labor productivity and utilization.⁷

The model used here is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment requirements tables, which were derived from the U.S. input-output tables that are published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. These tables are adjusted to 2000 price and productivity levels (BLS 2007b), in real, chain-weighted 2000 dollars. A base year with 2000 employment requirements was used to estimate the employment content of trade in all years covered in this study. This assumption was needed to control for the effects of technology. This technique isolates the effects of trade on employment from pure technology effects. This model is used to estimate the direct and indirect effects of changes in goods trade flows in each of 200 industries. This study updates the 1987 input employment requirements table used in earlier reports in this series (Rothstein and Scott 1997a, 1997b).

This analysis requires four-digit, trade data based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (U.S. International Trade Commission 2007), deflated with industry-specific, chain-weighted price indices (BLS 2007a), which were updated using industry-specific producer price indexes (BLS 2007b).⁸ Trade data were downloaded from the U.S. International Trade Commission (2007) Web site in NAICS format. The data for 2006 are preliminary estimates; this report will be updated and expanded when the final 2006 trade data are released in June 2007. State-level employment effects are calculated by allocating imports and exports to the states on the basis of their share of four-digit, industry-level employment for 2000 (U.S. Census Bureau 2001).

The trade data were converted into chain-weighted 2000 dollars. A domestic employment requirements table for a particular base year was used to estimate the employment effects of trade in each year of the analysis, holding technology constant. The domestic employment requirement calculates the labor required to produce all of a given product within the United States. Thus, it reflects the complete labor content of output, including jobs indirectly supported in service industries. The base year of 2000 was chosen for this study because it was an approximate mid-point in the data covered in this study.

CPS data on employment by industry by was collected for each of the detailed sectors in the model. These data were used to calculate each state's share of national employment.

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http://stats.bls.gov/emp/empind4.htm.

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http://stats.bls.gov/ces/cesbtabs.htm.

Clinton, William J. 2000. Expanding trade, protecting values: Why I'll fight to make China's trade status permanent. New Democrat, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 9-11.
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Endnotes

1. These purchases financed about one-quarter of the U.S. $857 billion current account deficit in 2006 (the broadest measure of all U.S. trade and income flows). But for these purchases, the reduced demand would have put significant downward pressure on the U.S. dollar. A substantial depreciation in the dollar would begin to improve the U.S. trade deficit within a few years.

2. NewsHour with Jim Lehrer transcript. 1999. "Online NewsHour: Opening Trade—November 15, 1999."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec99/wto_11-15.html.

3. See Ratner (2006) for a more complete, technical description of this model.

4. For the purposes of this report, it is necessary to distinguish between exports produced domestically and re-exports—which are goods produced in other countries, imported into the United States, and then re-exported to other countries, in this case to China. Since re-exports are not produced domestically, their production does not support domestic employment and they are excluded from the model used here. See Table 1 for information about the levels of U.S. re-exports to China in this period.

5. This model assumes that everything else is held constant and the results are counterfactual estimates.

6. See the methodology appendix for computational details.

7. Other studies—see California State World Trade Commission (1996), which finds 47,600 jobs created in California from increased trade with Canada alone—have allocated all employment effects to the home state of the exporting company. This is problematic, because the production—along with any attendant job effects—need not have taken place in the exporter's state. If a California dealer buys cars from Chrysler and sells them to China, these studies will find job creation in California. However, the cars are not made in California; so the employment effects should instead be attributed to Michigan and other state with high levels of auto industry production. Likewise, if the same firm buys auto parts from China, the loss of employment will occur in auto-industry states, not in California.

8. Industry-specific producer price indices are unavailable for certain industries between 2005 and 2006. In order to construct price deflators for all 200 BLS industries, we used a combination of commodity PPIs and industry PPIs. For instance, NAICS-based industry 3331 (which maps to BLS industry 72) is composed of agricultural, manufacturing, and mining machinery manufacturing. To compute a price index for this industry, a trade-weighted average of the commodity indices for agricultural machinery and construction machinery was used as a proxy for the industry PPI. Industry PPIs were used wherever available.

Outsourcing Not the Culprit in Manufacturing Job Loss

Wes Iversen
December 9th, 2003
Reprinted from:Automation World

Productivity gains spawned by factory automation are driving a worldwide decline in manufacturing jobs, even in developing nations, says researcher.

For many Americans, the word “outsourcing” conjures up images of manufacturing job decline. But the United States is far from alone in losing manufacturing employment, points out Dan Miklovic (shown above), vice president and research director at GartnerG2, the business research arm of Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. “Recent studies show that manufacturing jobs are declining everywhere,” said Miklovic, during a Nov. 17 panel discussion on outsourcing, part of a Global Media Summit sponsored by Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee.

Over the past decade, U.S. manufacturing jobs have declined by more than 11 percent, Miklovic noted. But at the same time, Japan’s manufacturing employment base has dropped by 16 percent, while the number of manufacturing jobs in countries including Brazil have declined by some 20 percent, he pointed out. “And one of the largest losers of manufacturing jobs has been China,” Miklovic added. “We like to pick on China and say that all of these jobs are going to China, but they’re losing jobs in manufacturing as well.”

The reason for the job losses? Miklovic summed it up in one word: automation. Through automation, he said, “we are really doing a good job of improving the productivity of people.”

Miklovic reminded media attendees at the panel session that 25 percent to 30 percent of the U.S. population was at one time involved in agricultural jobs. But today, only 3 percent of Americans work in agriculture, yet they have turned the United States into a net agricultural exporter, he noted. “The same thing is now happening in manufacturing,” Miklovic said. “Through automation, through improved productivity, we’re driving the number of jobs down on a global basis.”

Job loss in India

Confirmation came from another panel participant, K. Muralidharan, senior general manager for Sundram Fasteners Ltd., a major Indian automotive parts manufacturer. In India, he said, growing use of automation is holding down manufacturing job growth despite the large amount of outsourcing work that is flowing to the country. “I find that outsourcing in India has actually cost jobs in Indian industry, though in the long term, it will probably have a positive effect on employment,” Muralidharan said.

Manufacturing employment remains at about the same level in India today as it was during the recession of the late 1990s, according to Muralidharan. “The Indian economy is booming now, and it is predicted that in the next five years, the curve will only be upward. But still, the jobs and employment are not really growing at the same pace,” said Muralidharan. “The economies of scale that have been created due to outsourcing from developed countries have forced Indian industry to take on automation heavily, which was not the case about 10 years back,” he said.

GartnerG2’s Miklovic noted that the use of automation contributes to a cyclical situation in many industries. When a U.S. manufacturer develops a new product, for example, the company has first-mover advantage for a time. But in the next phase, when other manufacturers enter the market, competition often shifts to price. In response, some U.S. producers may move manufacturing offshore to developing nations, to take advantage of lower labor costs. However, said Miklovic, they frequently find that the level of automation and technology available in developing nations is less than that of the United States.

This means that U.S. manufacturers who then invest in sophisticated automation technology at home can gain the upper hand for a time over lower-priced imports, thanks to the higher quality product allowed by the automation, said Miklovic. But the automation technology used in the developing nations eventually catches up, giving products produced there the advantage, he added.

“We see this in semiconductors all the time,” Miklovic said. “Semiconductors typically have been produced in Japan and Taiwan. But now there is a booming semiconductor market that’s starting in China.” While the density and sophistication of semiconductor chips produced in China cannot yet match that of Japan and Taiwan, said Miklovic, China’s technology is moving in that direction.

“Automation only works for a period of time,” said Miklovic. The lesson for manufacturers is that they must continually reinvest in automation and innovation, he said. “If you stand still, ultimately you lose.”

Inetekk a USA company

Thomas Prendergast
Fall 2007
Corporate Site: Inetekk.com, Inc.

Inetekk was built in America by Americans!

All programming done by Americans
Sure it cost us more to build the Inetekk technology by ourselves and outsourcing to US programmers and US software developers. The prospect of sending our work abroad was never a consideration. Primarily doing so we lose the security of proprietary development to another country were we have little if any legal control regardless of how cheap that option could be. Then quality and communications is another factor, but we are also sensitive to doing business within our culture because of the process of getting what we are looking for and having the ability to have laws in effect that protect our interest in getting just what we are paying for.

Customer support by Americans
We are constantly getting offers to do our work at deep discounts by these foreign nationals, primarily India, but we are not cheap price motivated. Even our support service is run by Americans in America. We may ad to our support from Australia, but that is because they can offer the needed time frame for that region, not a cost consideration, so we can offer 24/7 seamless support for our clientele. Plus we have many Australian and New Zealander subscribers using our services and we love their accents.

Collocation in San Jose, CA USA
When we first started building the Inetekk systems, we went from a shared server in Florida to needing our own servers. We could have co located our servers in a foreign company for 1/3rd the cost but we realized by doing so our proprietary technology and secured databases would be at risk. Not a good idea. So we contracted with a well know company in San Jose. This was expensive but a very good decision. As the Internet has grown, the necessity to keep your data well secured is of the utmost importance and again, keeping this service local has proved to be a very good decision.

Servers built in USA
As we started building our server farm, again quality and service were the key issue. We went to a local shop in San Diego and hired them to build them. The first server, unaware to us, was built from foreign parts and within weeks the server started having failure issues. From then on we have demanded that all parts be US made as best we could and we have never had issues since. Our farm now runs with US made servers like NetAps, Intel, etc.

IT services by Americans
As with any server farm and web systems, having good IT professional's is imperative, and again, we hired US IT database engineers and server engineers. Same reason as our security is key and far more important than cost. For example, to use foreign IT services cost around $10 per hour. US costs are around $150 per hour. In my humble opinion, you get what you pay for.

The bottom line is future forecasting. I subscribe to the belief that our customers deserve the very best. Not only in the quality of the service, or the best customer support, but also security and the dedication to keep Inetekk around for the long run delivering the very best.

It seems the the big corporations in the US have lost sight to this fact and are all heading for serious issues as they continue down this road to losing control of their companies to the quest for seeking the lowest prices regardless. Take the Mattel toy company for example. Not long ago all their toys were US built. Today, they have lost major market share because the toys the sell now coming from Red China are toxic and low quality. It is scandalous that our children are getting toys painted with lead paint.

The future is at risk.

Thomas Prendergast
CEO
Inetekk.com, Inc.

Your job is secure if you are your boss

Bill Repp
October 14, 2007
Reprinted from: commercialappeal.com

Q: I've been out of work for nearly five months, and the prospect of getting a job in my field (mechanical engineering) doesn't look good -- unless I want to move my family across the country. I've always wanted to have my own business, but I'm worried about the comparative lack of job security that goes with it. What's your opinion? I'm over 50 and in good health. -- Deidre N.

A: You have a lot going for you: you've always wanted to have your own business, you're over 50, and you have good health. Security? You don't have it now, and you didn't have it when you got laid off. I don't think there's anything more secure today than working for yourself. Companies will cut any costs they have to just to stay in business, and the popular trend for the past several years has been to cut staff -- fast. And consider this: when you work for someone else -- big company or small -- only a few people -- your boss and one or two more managers -- control your future security. But with your own business, if you lose a few customers, you still have others to back you up. I've always thought that having my own business gives me more security, not less, than I'd have if I worked for someone else.

Another stunning fact of life: at 50, you're more likely to be more successful at hiring yourself than trying to convince someone else to do it. Fortune magazine once ran a cover story: "Finished at Forty," detailing the corporate trend of hiring younger people. As one CEO put it: "Why should I hang on to someone who's over 50? He's tired of the long hours and wants to spend more time with his family. He probably hasn't kept up with the newest technology. I have to pay him $75,000 a year or more, and he argues with me. I can hire someone in his 30's and pay him $35 to $40,000. He'll work 60 to 70 hours a week without complaining, and he won't argue with me. This is a no-brainer."

What Do YOU Want?

My best advice: do what feels right for YOU. When you're motivated and committed to a career you really like, the money and security usually take care of themselves. There's a big difference in putting in 50-60 hours a week into a job you love, and one you just feel so-so about. If you don't look forward to going to work when you get up in the morning, you're in the wrong job. Life is too short to work at a job you don't like.

Think carefully about how you want to spend one-third to half of the rest of your life (your waking hours). It you really think it's time to have your own business, then write your answers to these questions. They'll also form the foundation for a good business plan -- an absolute must if you want to succeed.

How would you describe your business (name, location, product/service?)

How would you describe your total target market -- the customers who will be willing to pay you for your products/services?

What industry, local, or consumer trends or needs will you react to?

How would you analyze, and then describe your competition (how many; current prices; their strengths/weaknesses)?

What are your marketing and business goals?

What are your first-year growth problems -- and how will you solve them?

What finances will you need to start the business and keep it going until it can stand on its own? How will you get them?

What's your operating plan for the next five years? (At least half of the new businesses started each year fail within the first 12 months. You must plan for a long-term business.)

What's your management plan to control and develop your basic operation/service?

What equipment, inventory, labor, space, overhead do you need?

Talk to Your Banker

Once your business plan is ready, prepare your personal financial statement (all your assets and liabilities). Next. prepare a projected balance sheet and profit and loss statement for your business -- at least for the first year. Then it's time to meet with your banker.

A good banker can advise you on the likelihood of your succeeding in getting a loan. He or she can point you in the right direction to get additional information. An excellent source for learning about starting your own business is on-line: Search for "sba.gov" and you'll discover a site that has all you need to know to write your business plan and finance your business. You'll even have models of nearly 100 business plans to study and benefit from. The rest is up to you -- and your energy and commitment.

Bill Repp is president of Organization Development Group, and has extensive experience in creating and delivering programs in marketing, communication, team building and business writing. E-mail Bill Repp at billrepp@rochester.rr.com

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